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Top Iraq Shiite cleric demands MP vote on US pact (AFP)

Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani, seen here in 2004, has lashed out at lawmakers who had left on a pilgrimage instead of voting on a divisive US military pact. Iraq's highest Shiite religious authority made his remarks just hours before MPs hold a second reading of the wide-ranging accord.(AFP/File/Ho)AFP - Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani, Iraq’s highest Shiite religious authority, on Thursday lashed out at lawmakers who had left on a pilgrimage instead of voting on a divisive US military pact.

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