Standoff bolstered Sadr&#39;s support
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Interviews with Iraqi Shiite clerics reveal that moderates are increasingly supporting Sadr&#39;s anti-US campaign. By Scott Baldauf | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Moqtada al-Sadr, the Shiite cleric whose Mahdi Army militia is fighting in Najaf with Iraqi and US forces, favors a political role in the nation&#39;s future rather than persisting with a military standoff, said Rime Allaf at London&#39;s ...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Aug. 31, 2004 - US and Iraqi officials on Tuesday discussed ways to step up aid to Najaf and a war-battered neighborhood in Baghdad after rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on his followers to end their uprising.
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It is the Iraqi people who come best out of the end of the Najaf siege. This has been a triumph for the moderate majority who until yesterday felt themselves powerless to influence the wretched course of events in their own country.
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Moktada al-Sadr has shown how a portly cleric with a dedicated militia and an artful grasp of Shiite street politics can confront American power.
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As parties haggle over candidate lists, radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr fights for a top spot.
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They had marched to Najaf to support a mission by Iraq&#39;s top Shi&#39;a cleric to end the fighting consuming the holy city. But at least 15 of Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani&#39;s supporters
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BAGHDAD: A key step towards peace in Iraq was taken on Saturday when the militia of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr agreed to lay down their arms in the capital.
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Moqtada Sadr, the radical Iraqi Shia cleric, appears in public for the first time in months.
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Several major political parties are in talks to form a coalition to break the influence of the radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, Iraqi officials say.
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Thousands of Shiites marched in celebration of an accord reached to end fighting between U.S. forces and a rebel cleric's militia.
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Iraq&#39;s Shi&#39;a spiritual leader rushed back from abroad on Wednesday to &quot;save Najaf&quot; after American forces smashed militia defences to trap hundreds of supporters of rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in the city&#39;s shrine.
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Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has reached an agreement with the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani that grants his freedom from murder charges and secures peace in war-torn Najaf, al-Sistani aides said on Thursday.
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Iraq&#39;s rebel Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr accepted a peace plan to lay down arms and join a Baghdad conference forming an interim national assembly.
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Fighting in Najaf, a holy city for Shi&#39;ite Muslims in Iraq, is at crisis point. Militiamen led by anti-US cleric Muqtada al-Sadr are holed up in the golden-domed Imam Ali mosque in a standoff against Iraq&#39;s interim government and American troops.
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With fighting raging, Shiite Muslims loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr appeared yesterday to renew their interest in a negotiated end to the siege of one of Islam&#39;s holiest shrines.
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&quot;It will be positive to hold Iraqi elections on time ... and protect the interests of all political, ethnic and sectarian. their own significant Shi&#39;ite populations could demand more influence.