Libya's Minister for Information Mahmoud Shammam said the NTC was following a fatwa, or religious ruling.
In 1998, Tehran promised the British Government that Iran would do nothing to implement the fatwa.
Recently the insurgents issued a fatwa condemning all members of the council to death.
Later he dutifully provided the ruling family with a fatwa endorsing the Middle East peace process.
Abdel-Rahman also issued from jail the religious ruling (or fatwa) that justified the September 11 attacks.
The front's first proclamation included a fatwa, or religious edict, permitting the killing of US civilians.
This month is the 20th anniversary of the fatwa against Salman Rushdie by the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran.
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That Sir Salman sought to profit from the fatwa inviting Muslims to kill him for insulting the prophet Muhammad.
The leader of the revolution, Ayotollah Khomenei, has given fatwa that using weapons of mass destruction is unlawful, harum.
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The fatwa, which was issued by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, disrupted Iran's relations with the EU though the 1990's.
It is so anti-clerical that it would be no surprise were the author to become the subject of a fatwa.
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most influential Shia cleric, has issued a fatwa compelling the faithful to cast their ballots.
But Jalili said that Iran's leadership has issued a fatwa that prevents the production and use of weapons of mass destruction.
Mr Fitzgerald said Mr al-Fawwaz publicly disassociated himself from Bin Laden after the al-Qaeda leader issued a fatwa against Americans in 1996.
His Fatwa on Mr Rushdie has been endorsed by the current Ayatollah Khameinei and to withdraw it would have huge political ramifications.
George Osborne unleashed a fatwa to make teachers and nurses, coppers and soldiers, the low paid and jobless pay for his Treasury catastrophe.
If Tina Brown really wants to call Republicans suicide bombers or someone else wants to talk about Mr. Santorum's fatwa, that's their right.
The calls for violence against Aylisli - echoing Iran's notorious fatwa against British author Salman Rushdie - have sparked strong condemnation from abroad.
Since there is no religious edict, or fatwa, banning laughing and whistling, the group has to acknowledge that the activity is perfectly legal.
Technically a Fatwa dies with the person who pronounced it, but for many Shiite Muslims in Iran, the Ayatollah Khomeini's edicts remain sacroscant.
What's also interesting is that none of these words was invoked to describe an actual mullah, an actual fatwa, or an actual suicide bomber.
Though some board members disavowed the fatwa, it shows that quite a few rejectionists now want to take part peacefully in the new politics.
EU, seemed to be recognising that the Iranian government could not risk upsetting Iran's religious hardliners by denouncing the fatwa or cancelling the reward.
It was in 1989 that the late Ayatollah Khomeini issued his Fatwa - or spiritual opinion - that effectively condemned Salman Rushdie to death.
The 14th was also the anniversary of Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa sentencing Rushdie (and his editors and publishers) to death for publishing The Satanic Verses.
The website's on-line fatwa service asserts that it is a sin for the Iraqi opposition to collaborate with infidels in order to overthrow their government.
Without even waiting for the January 2011 fatwa on offensive jihad from al-Azhar University, the North African revolts broke out, beginning with Tunisia in December 2010.
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One elderly cleric recently issued a fatwa on his website, decreeing that anyone who advocated mixing sexes was an enemy of Islam and should be killed.
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He has a number of Fatwa bounties on his head.
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