CNN sacks editor over cleric remark

Washington, 08 July-(ANA)-CNN has sacked a veteran Middle East editor after she wrote on Twitter that she "respected" a late senior Lebanese cleric said to have inspired Hezbollah.

A CNN official said Octavia Nasr was leaving the US TV news network because her credibility had been "compromised".

Nasr has described her 140-character remarks about Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, who died on Sunday, as an "error of judgement".

She said she had been referring to his "pioneering" views on women's rights.

'Immediate, overwhelming reaction'

Ayatollah Fadlallah, Lebanon's top Shia Muslim cleric, died at the age of 74. He was customarily described as the spiritual leader of the militant movement Hezbollah when it was formed in 1982. (ANA)

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