Sadr aide released from US detention in Iraq
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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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An American photographer abducted by  gunmen in Baghdad on Sunday has been freed and is safe, the  picture agency representing him said on Tuesday.
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A top aide to firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said today that kidnappers who abducted and threatened to kill a US journalist had promised to set him free.
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US troops said they caught a top aide to Iraq&#39;s most wanted man Saturday in Fallujah while the interim government said that it reopened dialogue with leaders in the restive city as the spectre of a major assault loomed.
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Aides to a top Shi&#39;ite cleric in Iraq say 18 captive Iraqi soldiers have been freed by kidnappers who had threatened to kill them.
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The cleric Muqtada al-Sadr brokered the release of a kidnapped American journalist on Sunday, even as his Shiite militia engaged in heavy fighting to fend
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A senior aide to Iraqi Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr has been released from US detention. Shaikh Mahmud Sudani said on Thursday he had received a telephone call from Muayad al-Khazraji, a religious judge who
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A Muslim cleric allegedly kidnapped by CIA agents and tortured in Egypt has been released, his lawyer says.
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US journalist Micah Garen was on Sunday freed by an Iraqi group who had held him hostage in the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya. &quot;I am very grateful to everyone who worked to protect me
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Iraqi officials say the US military has released a key negotiator involved in efforts to avert full scale military assault on Fallujah -- an insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad.
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The journalist was released after Moktada al-Sadr intervened, even as his Shiite militia engaged in heavy fighting in Najaf.
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An Iranian diplomat was freed in Iraq on Monday after a 55-day hostage ordeal at the hands of the same Islamic militants holding two French newsmen.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 21 -- U.S. and Iraqi forces arrested top aides to anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in pre-dawn raids Thursday, according to Sadr officials who called the move a provocation designed to trigger a full-blown battle between the groups.
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20 September 2004 -- Reports say that 18 Iraqi national guardsmen held hostage in Iraq have been released by their captors. Naim al-Qaabi, a representative of Shi&#39;ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, said the guardsmen were released at al-Sadr&#39;s request.
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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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An Islamist group has released 18 Iraqi  soldiers it had captured and threatened to kill unless an aide  to Shi'ite rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was released, Arabic  television Al Jazeera reported Monday.
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An Islamist group has released 18 Iraqi soldiers it had captured and threatened to kill unless an aide to Shi'ite rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was released, Arabic television Al Jazeera reported Monday.