How Sadr Plans to Ride Out the Surge
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Analysis: By standing down his army and allowing the U.S. to move through his stronghold, the radical Shi'ite leader is betting he'll still be there when the U.S. leaves
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Rebel Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr  has ordered his militia to end attacks on U.S. and Iraqi  government forces and will soon unveil plans to pursue his  goals through politics rather than conflict, aides said on  Monday.
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Moktada al-Sadr, the founder of the Mahdi Army, seems to be cooperating with the latest effort to pacify Baghdad, but why he is doing so remains unclear.
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US vehicles take up positions around edge of Iraqi capital's Sadr City district.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraq's radical cleric Moqtada  al-Sadr wants to negotiate arrangements to implement government  demands to end his uprising, his spokesman said on Thursday.
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BAGHDAD -- Mercurial Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr once again has everyone guessing about his next move.
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BAGHDAD - Radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr could end a ban on his militia's activities because of rising anger over US and Iraqi raids against his followers, an aide said yesterday amid concerns about rising violence and clashes between rival factions in the mainly Shi'ite south.
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Moqtada al-Sadr, the radical Shiite cleric who has been involved in a two-week battle with US forces, has offered to leave a holy shrine in Najaf.
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US General Petraeus takes his post Saturday, bringing with him a plan to spread troops across Baghdad.
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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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Moqtada Sadr, the radical Iraqi Shia cleric, appears in public for the first time since a US troop surge in Baghdad.
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Radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has left Iraq and is in Iran, the U.S. military said on Wednesday, after the cleric's aides denied earlier reports he had departed to avoid an offensive against militants.
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Large-scale assaults like that in Samarra  could be the way forward in Iraq, the US defence secretary says.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric made a  sudden return to the country Wednesday and said he had a plan  to end an uprising in the "burning city" of Najaf, where  fighting is creeping ever closer to its holiest shrine.
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The fight with renegade Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is not over and the US military must retake his stronghold in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City slum, a top US commander said Thursday.
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A military operation is under way in Baghdad's Sadr City, as Iraq's PM offers an olive branch to insurgents.
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BAGHDAD, May 25 -- Moqtada al-Sadr, the influential Shiite cleric and militia leader who went into hiding before the launch of a U.S.-Iraqi security offensive in February, made his first public appearance in months today, delivering a sermon before thousands of worshipers at a mosque in the south...