BAGHDAD, Iraq - An influential Sunni cleric urged President Jalal Talabani on Friday to fulfill his promise to pardon homegrown insurgents and resist U.S. pressure to keep them in prison.

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What is the point of capturing terrorists if they are released to continue more terror acts?  It seems pointless.