Man in the iron Mosque: radical Sunni cleric Sheikh Mahdi al-Sumeidayih was held in Abu Ghraib prison--and he and his Salafi followers are hardly in a forgiving mood.(Dispatches)

IF THE AMERICAN JAILERS OF SHEIKH Mahdi al-Sumeidayih hoped to take the fire out of one of Iraq's most radical Sunni clerics, they might have been glad to hear the hesitant, almost beseeching tone in his voice less than a week after his release.

"I told them that I do not support violence, that we have nothing to do with it," al-Sumeidayih told me, recounting the constant interrogations during his five months in custody, mostly in Abu Ghraib prison. "I said we are peaceful, we have nothing against the Americans. When they asked me to go on television to state my ...

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