Sadr appears, Basra militia leader killed
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KUFA, Iraq  - Fiery Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr appeared in public for the first time in months on Friday to renew his opposition to U.S. forces in Iraq and paint himself as a leader for all Iraqis.
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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: Members of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr&#39;s militia began handing back their weapons yesterday under a deal with the interim Iraq Government, while two US soldiers were killed in a Baghdad rocket attack.
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Iraqis carry a portrait of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Baghdad&#39;s Shiite enclave of Sadr city Friday Dec. 10 2004 as they mark the anniversary of his father&#39;s death.
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Moqtada al-Sadr fills his militia with Shiite 'true believers.'
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Clashes in Sadr City, where US forces and militiamen loyal to rebel Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have been fighting since April, have killed at least 22 Iraqis.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 29 -- A Shiite cult leader, who claimed to be a revered Muslim figure who vanished in the 10th century, was killed Sunday along with scores of fighters who were poised to attack a holy city in southern Iraq and assassinate the country's Shiite religious leadership, Iraqi officials said...
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NAJAF, Iraq - Iraq's top Shiite cleric made a dramatic return to Najaf at the head of a massive convoy Thursday hoping to end three weeks of fighting in the holy city, but hours earlier a mortar barrage slammed into a mosque filled with Iraqis preparing to join his march, killing 27 people and wounding 63.    Along with the mortar attack, another group of thousands of marchers heading into Najaf from its sister-city Kufa came under fire from an Iraqi National Guard base...
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KUFA, Iraq  - Fiery Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr appeared in public for the first time in months on Friday to renew demands for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq and paint himself as a leader for all Iraqis.
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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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The Iraqi Shia cleric, Moqtada Sadr, announces the "rebuilding" of his Mehdi Army militia.
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BAGHDAD US forces battled insurgents loyal to the rebel Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Tuesday, in clashes that killed at least 34 people, including an American soldier, and wounded almost 200, US and Iraqi authorities
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The cleric leading resistance at a mosque stormed by Pakistani troops is killed, officials say.
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Rebel Shi'ite fighters appeared still to be in control of the Imam Ali mosque in the Iraqi city Najaf early on Saturday, but the whereabouts of their leader, the fiery cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, were unknown.
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At least one person is killed apparently heeding a top Iraqi cleric's call to march on Najaf, where a stand-off continues.
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One of the candidates Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi was fielding in the Jan. 30 elections was killed in the southern city of Basra on Tuesday, officials in Baghdad and Basra said.
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shot dead a militiaman loyal to his ousted predecessor after a weekend of political violence. intelligence chief Juma Adil told Reuters on Tuesday.