Top Lebanon Shiite cleric praises Obama

Source: AP

BEIRUT (AP) - President Barack Obama's speech reaching out to Muslims had strong points, Lebanon's most influential Shiite cleric told former President Jimmy Carter, but people are waiting for real results.

Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah's comments came during a meeting Tuesday night at his office
with Carter who was in Lebanon to monitor last weekend's parliamentary elections.

Fadlallah, who was widely believed to have been the spiritual leader of the militant Hezbollah group in the 1980s, is a harsh critic of U.S. policies in the Middle East which many Arabs believe are biased toward Israel.

Though he has since distanced himself from the militant group, he has followers worldwide among Shiites, including in Iraq.

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