U.S.: 'Cell leader' with Iran links nabbed in Sadr City
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Iraqi and coalition forces killed five "terrorists" and detained a "suspected terrorist cell leader" with links to Iran's weapons and training network during raids Saturday in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood, the U.S. military said. The raids came a day after radical Shiite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr made his first public appearance in four months. Sadr City is a stronghold of his Mehdi Army militia.
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Anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr fled Iraq for Iran ahead of a security crackdown in Baghdad and the arrival of 21,500 U.S. troops sent by President Bush to quell sectarian violence, a senior U.S. official said Tuesday.
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The U.S. military freed a top aide to  rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Thursday in a gesture  that could help the interim government's efforts to calm  rebel-held strongholds before elections due in January.
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The U.S. military on Wednesday announced the arrest of a senior leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, an insurgent who, the military said, is casting himself as a "conduit" between the top leaders of al Qaeda and al Qaeda in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Nov 25  - One of the leaders of the top US foe in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ,was arrested in the northern city of Mosul, national security adviser Qassem Daoud said Thursday.
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Powerful Shiite leader says he plans to lead a mass demonstration today to end fighting. â¢ Iraqi hostage: Militants said Wednesday they had kidnapped the brother-in-law of Iraqi Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan
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US troops in Iraq say they have arrested a suspected leader of a Shia militia group allegedly backed by Iran.
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U.S.-backed Prime Minister Ayad Allawi was trailing a Shiite ticket with ties to Iran in Iraq's historic election, according to partial returns released Friday. One U.S. soldier was killed and seven wounded in the north, and gunmen seized an Italian journalist in Baghdad.
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A naturalized U.S. citizen from Iran who was found in Iraq was indicted Friday on charges of providing support to a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the Iranian regime, federal prosecutors said.
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Iraq's foreign minister said on Wednesday he suspected Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia was behind the abduction of five Britons from a government building in Baghdad.
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A top aide to radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was freed from US detention on Thursday, an aide to Sadr said. Sheikh Moayad al-Khazraji, who was believed to have been held
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U.S. forces backed by airstrikes raided Sadr City, Baghdad's main Shiite district, killing 49 militants on Sunday as they targeted a militia leader accused in high-profile kidnappings, the military said. Iraqi officials said at least 13 people were killed, including women and children.
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U.S.-led multinational forces have detained a key leader in the Muslim militant network in Iraq headed by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the U.S. military said Saturday.
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U.S. forces arrested Falluja's chief  negotiator on Friday after air strikes on the rebel-held city  that the U.S. military said were part of a drive to thwart  attacks in Iraq during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
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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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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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Five Britons who were kidnapped in Baghdad last month are being held by a secret cell of the Mahdi Army militia that was armed, trained and funded by Iran, the top U.S. commander in Iraq was quoted Thursday as saying.