Al-Sadr overhauling his Shiite militia
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Iraq's most powerful Shiite militia leader is turning to his commanders who distinguished themselves fighting U.S. troops in 2004 to screen fighters, weed out criminals and assume key positions in an effort to build a more disciplined force, two of his key lieutenants say.
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NAJAF, Aug 18: Shia leader Moqtada al Sadr agreed on Wednesday to disarm his militia and leave Najaf&#39;s Imam Ali Mosque but only after a truce with encircling US marines. A senior aide said Moqtada Sadr had demanded a ceasefire first with US-led forces in ...
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Radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has ordered heads of his Mehdi Army militia to leave Iraq and asked the government to arrest "outlaws" under a U.S.-backed crackdown, Iraq's president said on Thursday.
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Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr appeared in public for the first time in months on Friday
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Baghdad - Followers of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Monday trickled in to police stations in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City district to hand in weapons under a deal seen as a key step toward ending weeks of fighting with US and Iraqi forces in the Shiite militant
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Dozens of militia fighters loyal to Shiâite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr laid down their arms Friday in front of the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf after their leader turned control of
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BAGHDAD , Oct 11 (MASNET &amp; News Agencies) - Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr&#39;s militia began slowly turning in weapons under a deal with the Iraqi government aimed at bringing a halt to months of deadly fighting in a Baghdad slum.
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The Thursday morning operation aimed at the large Shiite Muslim slum is part of an effort to dismantle the militia loyal to rebel cleric Moqtada Sadr.
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BAGHDAD: A key step towards peace in Iraq was taken on Saturday when the militia of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr agreed to lay down their arms in the capital.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr accepted a peace plan Wednesday for Najaf that would disarm his militiamen and remove them from a holy shrine where they are hiding out, according to a spokesman. However, Al-Sadr wanted to negotiate how the deal would be implemented...
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BAGHDAD -- A week after reaching a truce with Moqtada al-Sadr's rebel militia, a move officials hailed as a breakthrough that would let them bolster security forces and restart reconstruction projects, the interim Iraqi government faces a deepening crisis of confidence among the country's Shi'ite Muslim majority.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A delegation of Iraqis arrived in Najaf on helicopters Tuesday to present radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr with a peace proposal aimed at ending the violent insurgency wracking the holy city.    The peace proposal, cobbled together Iraq's National Conference in Baghdad, demanded that al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia put down its arms and join Iraq's political process in exchange for amnesty...
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Plan would bring peace to a Baghdad district that has been a battleground for armored U.S. forces and militia loyal to Sadr.
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BAGHDAD -- Moqtada al-Sadr yesterday ordered his Mahdi Army militia to stop fighting US and Iraqi government forces and launch a political movement, aides said, raising hopes that the Shi'ite cleric's poor, urban followers will end their violent opposition to the US-backed government and embrace elections scheduled for next year.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose militia has been fighting American and Iraqi forces for almost two weeks in Najaf, agreed Wednesday to a peace plan proposed by an Iraqi national ...
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Iraq&#39;s rebel Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr accepted a peace plan to lay down arms and join a Baghdad conference forming an interim national assembly.
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Muqtada al-Sadr's surprise decision to stand down his Mahdi Army for up to six months was designed to stop a Shiite-Shiite rift from spiraling out of control and to weed out infiltrators in his militia's ranks, according to aides of the radical Shiite cleric.