U.S.: Sadr City again a militants' haven
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U.S. soldiers trying to calm Baghdad say the sprawling Sadr City slum has once again become a haven for anti-American militants &#151; and the source of most of the gunfire and mortars directed at them.
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The U.S. military believes radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, one of Iraq's most powerful figures, has left the country and is now in Iran, two senior American officials said on Tuesday.
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US vehicles take up positions around edge of Iraqi capital's Sadr City district.
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Radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has emerged from a bloody, two-week showdown with U.S. forces with his militia intact but his heroic image in question.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Followers of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr trickled in to police stations in Baghdad's Sadr City district to hand in weapons Monday under a deal with the government that is seen as a key step toward ending weeks of fighting with U.S. and Iraqi forces in the Shiite militant stronghold...
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NAJAF, Iraq  - With his militants and human  shields holed up inside one of Shi'ite Islam's most sacred  shrines, radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is playing a  shrewd waiting game before an expected American-led offensive.
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Radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr accepted a peace plan Wednesday calling for his militiamen to disarm and leave their hideout in a revered Shiite shrine, raising hopes of ending a battle that has threatened to undermine Iraq's fledgling interim government.
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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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A US Army tank patrols the center of Sadr City, Baghdad, along with Iraqi police and Iraqi National Guards, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004 to find weapons in Sadr City.
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BAGHDAD -- More than 1,100 US and Iraqi troops pushed into the Shi'ite militia haven of Sadr City yesterday, the largest operation in nearly three years in the sprawling, turbulent slum. Control of the area is viewed as pivotal to stabilizing the capital and preventing Iraq's slide toward civil war.
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BAGHDAD -- For three years, thousands of members of a militant group dedicated to overthrowing Iran's theocracy have lived in a sprawling compound north of Baghdad under the protection of the U.S. military.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi announced plans Monday to extend a cash-for-weapons program for Shiite fighters in Baghdad's Sadr City to cities nationwide in an attempt to disarm the country. U.S. forces also reported fresh attacks against alleged terrorist strongholds in Fallujah.
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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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The resumption of urban warfare over the past two weeks in the Shiite holy city of Najaf in Iraq reflects forces far beyond the Mehdi Army of radical Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr and the American-installed interim Iraqi government ...
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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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U.S. troops killed about 26 suspected militants in Baghdad's Sadr City on Saturday in one of the fiercest clashes in the Shi'ite stronghold since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
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The American military met for five hours on Sunday with representatives of the rebellious cleric Moktada al-Sadr in the volatile Baghdad Shiite neighborhood of Sadr