Mr. Wahid, who made the announcement at a mosque after Friday Prayers, told worshipers that he had instructed the police to detain Mr. Suharto's son, Hutomo Mandela Putra, 38, a prominent businessman known as Tommy.
Mudhafer al-Musawi, the imam of Friday Prayers, told thousands of Sadr followers in Sadr City that the movement was preparing instructions for Mahdi Army fighters and other volunteers prepared to join the new group.
Raja Taufiq Khan, a faith ambassador for the Calderdale area, read Islamic prayers, telling the congregation: "As a member of the Muslim community, I offer my sincere condolences, my heartfelt grief and sorrow for the death of six soldiers who gave their lives for peace in the world".
He chased us into the school," Baroukh, a Jewish man living nearby who had come for morning prayers, told Reuters, declining to give his family name.
Imam Dhari gave a special prayer, telling people to forget their sectarian differences in order to resist the American occupation.
She quoted a prayer told to her by a rabbi: "Let me not die while I am still alive".
With his team together, J. T. Curtis leads the players in prayer, telling them: "This is not just a football team, not just a school — it's a family.
Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati used Friday prayers to tell worshippers that the individuals in question had "made confessions".
They have used Friday prayers to tell looters to register their weapons with local offices answerable to the national council and have distributed reminders to be pinned to lampposts.
