http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-11-18-iraq_x.htm

The Iraqi government, meanwhile, warned that Islamic clerics who incite violence will be considered to be "participating in terrorism," and it said a number of them already have been arrested.

Thair al-Naqeeb, a spokesman for Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, did not specify how many clerics have been detained.

In the past two weeks, a number of Sunni Muslim clerics in Baghdad and other cities — including several members of the influential Association of Muslim Scholars — have been arrested by U.S. and Iraqi forces.

The group, considered the most powerful Sunni religious group in the country, had publicly criticized the U.S. assault against Fallujah and promised to boycott national elections in January in protest.

It's about time. I hope that these bozos disappear forever in the depths of the Iraqi prison system.