After ceasefire, Sadr looks to elections
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The rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has ordered his Mahdi Army militia to halt attacks on coalition and Iraqi Government forces, as aides said he was ready to join the US-backed political process.
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Established Shiite parties and upstarts are feuding, and their leading cleric is trying to pull them together before the election.
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BAGHDAD : A key step toward peace in Iraq was taken when the militia of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr agreed to lay down their arms in the capital, as US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said more troops may be needed to ensure safe elections in January.
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BAGHDAD: Shia leader Moqtada Al Sadr on Monday ordered a nationwide ceasefire and announced his militant movement would join the political mainstream, his aides said.
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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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Friday&#39;s battle for the Iraqi city of Samarra is the opening salvo in what will be a campaign over the next several months to &quot;take back&quot; more than a dozen Iraq cities where insurgents hold sway, in time for country&#39;s January elections
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Rebel Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr reportedly calls on his armed supporters across Iraq to observe a ceasefire.
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Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr could end a ban on his militia's activities because of rising anger over U.S. and Iraqi raids against his followers, an aide said Friday amid concerns about rising violence and clashes between rival factions in the mainly Shiite south.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A delegation of Iraqis arrived in Najaf on helicopters Tuesday to present radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr with a peace proposal aimed at ending the violent insurgency wracking the holy city.    The peace proposal, cobbled together Iraq's National Conference in Baghdad, demanded that al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia put down its arms and join Iraq's political process in exchange for amnesty...
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Followers of Muqtada al Sadr, the radical cleric, began handing their weapons into police stations in the Iraqi capital yesterday and US forces suspended operations against their strongholds in Sadr City.
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Moqtada Sadr has clear political ambitions. But how good is his poker game?
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Iraq's future political landscape began to take shape Friday, as a coalition led by powerful Shiite Muslim groups revealed a few of its candidates in next month's parliamentary election. They include former exiles, a prominent cleric and members of the interim government.
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Shi&#39;ite militia fighters backing the radical Iraqi cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, are handing in weapons at the start of a deal with the Iraqi interim Government to end months of violence.
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Delegates come together to choose candidates that will form a delegation to meet Moqtada al-Sadr in Najaf to ask him to stop fighting and join the political process instead during Iraq&#39;s National Conference, August 16, 2004. AP ...
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Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr launched a bloody two-month uprising in April that ended after a series of truces. Fighting between US forces and al-Sadr&#39;s Mahdi Army militia erupted again on Aug. 5 in Najaf.
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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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U.S. military officials and representatives of rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr held talks Sunday aimed at reducing violence in the restive Baghdad slum of Sadr City, a day after clashes there killed 10 people, officials said. British forces in the southern city of Basra, also the site of recent fighting, held similar talks with al-Sadr officials there.