21.   Sheik Al-Jamri, a prominent Shiite cleric, and seven associates were jailed last year for allegedly inciting riots on the island.

22.   Sheik al-Jamri, a prominent Shiite cleric, was jailed last year for allegedly inciting riots on the island.

23.   Sayed Hussein al-Sader, the cousin of the dead cleric, also accused Saddam and said the killing belonged to a pattern of assassinations of Shiite clerics.

24.   Sheik Khodor Tlaiss was killed along with four other supporters of radical Shiite cleric Sobhi Tufeili in battles with the Lebanese army in the eastern ancient city of Baalbek.

25.   Sheik Khodor Tlaiss was killed along with four other supporters of radical Shiite cleric Sobhi Tufeili in battles with the Lebanese army in the ancient city of Baalbek.

26.   The arrest was condemned by Amnesty International, which says seven other Shiite clerics also are in detention, none of whom has been charged with a crime.

27.   The government hanged eight men last month for assassinating two other senior Shiite clerics last year and attacking another.

28.   The release came a day after the departure of a top Shiite cleric from Lebanon who had sought their freedom.

29.   Tufeili, a radical Shiite cleric, launched a movement last year to press the government to improve conditions in the impoverished Bekaa region of eastern Lebanon.

30.   IFLB added Wednesday that two more Shiite cleric had been expelled.