﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Ali al Sistani news stories on Newser</title><description>Read more Ali al Sistani stories on Newser</description><link>http://www.newser.com/taggrid/739/ali-al-sistani.html</link><image><url>http://img1-cdn.newser.com/images/newser-black250x40.gif</url><title>Ali al Sistani news stories on Newser</title><link>http://www.newser.com/</link></image><copyright>2012 - Newser</copyright><language>en-us</language><generator>Newser Feed Generator</generator><pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 07:51:49 CDT</pubDate><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/15996/kurds-lead-charge-to-oust-iraqi-leader.html</guid><title>Kurds Lead Charge to Oust Iraqi Leader</title><dc:creator>Kevin Spak</dc:creator><description>&lt;img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=62382&amp;width=45&amp;height=45&amp;crop=Y&amp;updateddate=20110401023504' border='0' /&gt;Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is under fire again, this time from Kurdish politicians who say he hasn’t followed through on promises he made after the Kurds propped him up last summer. A Kurdish/Sunni coalition against Maliki almost has enough votes to depose him, a development the US fears would...</description><media:content url="http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=62382&amp;width=45&amp;height=45&amp;crop=Y&amp;updateddate=20110401023504" type="image/jpg" medium="image"><media:description type="plain">Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, right, speaks  during a press conference in Baghdad in this Oct. 3, 2007 file photo. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)</media:description></media:content><link>http://www.newser.com/story/15996/kurds-lead-charge-to-oust-iraqi-leader.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:02:14 CST</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/1001/cleric-opposes-rebaathification.html</guid><title>Cleric Opposes Rebaathification</title><dc:creator>Greg Atwan</dc:creator><description>&lt;img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=2042&amp;width=45&amp;height=45&amp;crop=Y&amp;updateddate=20110401035614' border='0' /&gt;A bill allowing Saddam's party members back into power in Iraq has been rejected by that country's most powerful cleric. The law, aggressively pushed by the U.S., would allow former low-level Baathists--most of them Sunnis--to hold positions in government. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the powerful Shiite cleric, dismissed the...</description><media:content url="http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=2042&amp;width=45&amp;height=45&amp;crop=Y&amp;updateddate=20110401035614" type="image/jpg" medium="image"><media:description type="plain">The rarely-photographed Sistani, seen here on a handout, opposes the law</media:description></media:content><link>http://www.newser.com/story/1001/cleric-opposes-rebaathification.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:17:29 CDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
