Sadr aide freed as Iraq seeks pre-election calm
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The US military has freed a top aide to rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in a gesture that could help the interim government&#39;s efforts to calm rebel-held strongholds before elections due in January.
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BAGHDAD : A key step toward peace in Iraq was taken when the militia of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr agreed to lay down their arms in the capital, as US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said more troops may be needed to ensure safe elections in January.
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Militants filed out of the Imam Ali Mosque, closed the doors behind them and turned over the keys to Iraq s top Shiite cleric Friday, symbolizing their acceptance of a peace deal to end three weeks of fighting ...
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The Syrian Catholic archbishop of Mosul was freed today, a day after his abduction in Iraq, according to reports from the Vatican. But with Iraq's first election just 12 days away, violence aimed at derailing the process continued today.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Followers loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said Friday they were preparing to hand control of the revered Imam Ali Shrine to top Shiite religious authorities in a bid to end a two-week-old uprising in the holy city of Najaf.    Al-Sadr aide Ahmed al-Shaibany said he was on his way to the office of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's top Shiite Muslim cleric, to offer to present officials there with keys to the shrine...
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Radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is still in Iraq and has not left for Iran, several of his aides said on Wednesday, after American officials suggested he may have departed to avoid an offensive against militants.
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Iraqi police forces in Najaf today captured four senior aides to Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al- Sadr, al-Arabiya reported, citing Iraqi officials.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most respected Muslim cleric, returned to this beleaguered city yesterday and persuaded rebel leader Moqtada al-Sadr to end a bloody three-week standoff with US and Iraqi government forces.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 7 -- The U.S. military released a senior aide to the rebellious Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr on Thursday, and Sadr aides said momentum was growing toward an agreement to disband the cleric's militia, which would halt a major element of the insurgency in Iraq.
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Kidnapped US journalist Micah Garen was recovering from his ordeal in Iraq Monday after being released on the orders of rebel cleric Moqtada Sadr.
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As fighting flared up between US troops and militiamen loyal to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, a US journalist kidnapped since August 13 was released in good health.
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27 September 2004 -- An Iranian diplomat was freed by his captors in Iraq today after spending more than a month as a hostage. Iran&#39;s Foreign Ministry confirmed that Faridoun Jahani, the Iranian consul in
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Iraq&#39;s most revered Shiite religious authority has agreed Thursday a &quot;very positive&quot; deal with rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to end a three-week uprising in the holy city of Najaf, as tensions were inflamed by attacks on Shiite marchers that killed at
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The top aide to Iraq's rebel Shi'ite  cleric Moqtada al-Sadr announced on Thursday that Shi'ite  militiamen would hand over their weapons as part of a peace  initiative in Baghdad's Sadr City and other areas.
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The journalist was released after Moktada al-Sadr intervened, even as his Shiite militia engaged in heavy fighting in Najaf, Iraq.
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Anti-American Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has left Iraq for Iran ahead of a security crackdown in Baghdad, a U.S. officials said Tuesday
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A senior aide to rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has been released from US detention, an aide to Sadr, Sheikh Mahmoud Sudani, says.