But al-Shabab, which follows an ultra-conservative form of Islam, opposes the moderate version of Islamic law the president and his U.N.-supported government are likely to put in place.

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Democrats portrayed Reichert as an ultra-conservative empty suit who mismanaged the state's largest county sheriff's office.

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Marcial Maciel, a Mexican priest who founded the Legionaries of Christ, an ultra-conservative Catholic movement, was a serial abuser.

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Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose followers are battling U.S. troops, takes his spiritual direction from an ultra-conservative, Iran-based, Iraqi-exile cleric.

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