Instead, it quotes a prominent Muslim activist, former SDSer Mahdi Bray, supporting the rally.
Scotland's richest man was named as Mahdi al-Tajir, owner of mineral water firm Highland Spring.
Rogue elements of the Mahdi Army are ignoring Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's seven-month-old ceasefire order.
However, this chain of succession was disrupted with the vanishing of the twelfth imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi.
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"They stripped me of my scarf and searched my hair, " says Mahdi's mother-in-law, Ameen.
Zahra Mahdi did get to see her husband on her last visit, just three months ago.
Hadi al-Mahdi, 44, hosted one of the most popular talk shows in Baghdad, on Radio Demozy.
Mr Ali Mahdi agreed to changes, but Mr Hussein has not done so yet.
But Mr Ali Mahdi and Mr Aideed are both from the same Hawiye clan.
Another problem is that the Cairo agreement is essentially between Mr Ali Mahdi and Mr Aideed.
The biggest challenge, Mr al-Mahdi believes, is to agree on the boundaries of Islam.
Though from the same party as Mr Mahdi, Mr Jaber's wing of it is much more aggressive.
Al-Maliki's trip follows the visit to Iran last week of Adel Abdul Mahdi, Iraq's Shiite vice president.
Brown wants the visits to transform the families' view of Americans, but that's not what Mahdi remembers.
Uno de los nuevos vicepresidentes es Adel Abdul-Mahdi, alto dirigente de uno de los principales grupos chiitas.
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Mr el Mahdi wants talks with the government based on the principle of a democratic, secular state.
Many members of the Mahdi Army in Najaf hail from farther afield and are resented by local residents.
The connection between the Mahdi's rebellion and the Muslim world's turbulent present sometimes, however, seems a little strained.
One of the detainees, Mahdi Jassim Abdullah al-Behadili, told the inquiry last month he feared being tortured and executed.
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In many ways, the return of the Mahdi is roughly equivalent to the return of Jesus in Christian belief.
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Mahdi lives in the Baghdad slum called Sadr City with her five children.
Many of the men in the local Mahdi units are his childhood friends.
Sheik Mohammed Azzedawi, a tribal leader, spoke to NPR by phone from a Basra neighborhood that is a Mahdi stronghold.
Intense fighting between Iraqi security forces and Mahdi fighters there raises the concern that the wider ceasefire might not hold.
Mr al-Mahdi and Mr Mirghani might abandon their southern allies, return to Khartoum and go along with the Egyptian plan.
Does that mean the Mahdi Army lays down its arms and, you know, lays their guns and puts up their hands?
One senior Mahdi Army commander said the cease-fire is still in effect, and he blames Iraq's security forces for the current impasse.
"When the explosion happened, it was chaos, " said shop owner Hussein Mahdi.
Muqtada el-Sadr's Mahdi Army, although Iraq-based, was also supported by the Iranians.
Shia Muslims of the Twelver variety practiced in Iran hold an apocalyptic perspective of the end times and of the return of the Mahdi.
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