Civil strife comes home as a son joins Sadr's army
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The Monitor revisits the Methboub family. The youngest son has a new bike; another has joined a radical Shiite militia.
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Muhammad Ismail, 45, and his son, Jaber, 19, relatives of a man convicted of supporting terrorists, returned to the United States.
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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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Fighting between the US and Sadr's militia continue, but families still arrive in Najaf for burials.
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Army Staff Sgt. Dustin Williams was supposed to be home on this day -- Father's Day -- to feel the embrace of his four young children, but he couldn't. Like so many fathers fighting in Iraq, the essence of home has been boiled down to the basics. "I get photos and videos in boxes and trinkets in boxes," says Williams. "That lets me know they're there and they care. That's something I can hold on to."
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Militants had just kidnapped and dragged his ailing 80-year-old father through the streets. They also beat his brothers until they collapsed. Forty of his men were killed, and several were beheaded.
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An Iraqi boy stands near a huge crater in Baghdad&#39;s Shiite slum of Sadr City, 07 September 2004. Iraq was steeped in blood as a fledgling truce in a Baghdad rebel bastion of Sadr City was shattered by fresh
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Muqtada al-Sadr's surprise decision to stand down his Mahdi Army for up to six months was designed to stop a Shiite-Shiite rift from spiraling out of control and to weed out infiltrators in his militia's ranks, according to aides of the radical Shiite cleric.
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Iraq&#39;s top Shi&#39;ite cleric made a sudden return to the country on Wednesday and said he had a plan to end an uprising in the &quot;burning city&quot; of Najaf, where fighting is creeping ever closer to its holiest shrine.
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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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NAJAF, Iraq  - When Saddam Hussein ruled Najaf  with an iron first, Samir Ghalib stayed home during troubled  times.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces battled insurgents loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Tuesday, in clashes that left at least 34 people dead, including one American soldier, and 193 people injured, U.S...
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Moktada al-Sadr made the announcement after fighting between his militia and rival Shiite forces that left 52 people dead.
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BAGHDAD -- Moqtada al-Sadr yesterday ordered his Mahdi Army militia to stop fighting US and Iraqi government forces and launch a political movement, aides said, raising hopes that the Shi'ite cleric's poor, urban followers will end their violent opposition to the US-backed government and embrace elections scheduled for next year.
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BAGHDAD -- The son of one of Iraq's most prominent Shi'ite politicians lashed out at the United States in an incendiary televised appearance yesterday, a day after he was detained by US troops.
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Muqtada al-Sadr's decision to withdraw from the Shiite bloc is the most dramatic sign of the transformation in Iraqi politics. Old alliances are fraying, new ones are forming.
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A father who lost a second son last week in the Iraq war said Thursday the support his family has received has strengthened his backing for the United States' efforts to combat global terrorism.