Iraq Shi'ite leader wants U.S.-backed units curbed
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A powerful Shi'ite Muslim leader in Iraq called on Friday for U.S.-backed, mainly Sunni neighborhood patrols to be brought under tight government control with a more balanced sectarian makeup.
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A top aide to Iraq&#39;s rebel Shi&#39;ite leader Moqtada al-Sadr called on the Mehdi Army militia Monday to cease fire across Iraq and said Sadr was preparing to announce plans for a major political program.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for his followers across Iraq to end fighting against U.S. and Iraqi forces and is considering joining the political process, an al-Sadr aide said Monday...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called today for his followers across Iraq to end fighting against US and Iraqi forces, an al-Sadr aide said.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon  - A top aide to Iraq's rebel  Shi'ite leader Moqtada al-Sadr called on the Mehdi Army militia  Monday to cease fire across Iraq and said Sadr was preparing to  announce plans for a major political program.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 21 -- One of Iraq's most powerful Shiite leaders and a close American ally called Friday for tighter Iraqi control over the thousands of armed men, most of them Sunnis, taking part in a U.S.-backed program to combat insurgents.
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The U.S.-backed coalition of Shiite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish parties aims to isolate extremists, officials say.
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Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric urged followers on Monday not to seek revenge against Sunni Arabs on the first anniversary of a Shi'ite shrine bombing that has pitched the country to the brink of civil war.
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Rebel Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr  has ordered his militia to end attacks on U.S. and Iraqi  government forces and will soon unveil plans to pursue his  goals through politics rather than conflict, aides said on  Monday.
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Senior aides to the powerful Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr warn US of end to freeze if attacks do not stop
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NAJAF, Iraq  - An Iraqi peace delegation urged a  radical Shi'ite cleric Tuesday to call off his uprising in the  city of Najaf where U.S. troops pounded militia positions near  the country's holiest Islamic sites.
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Influential members of Muqtada al-Sadr's movement have urged the anti-U.S. Shiite cleric not to extend a cease-fire when it expires next month, officials said Monday, a move that could jeopardize recent security gains.
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A proposal now being drafted would limit the role of United States troops in Iraq to counterterrorism efforts.
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One of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite leaders said after meeting President Bush on Monday that civil war could only be staved off if U.S. forces struck harder against Sunni-led insurgents.
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NAJAF, Aug 17: An Iraqi peace delegation urged Shia leader Moqtada Sadr on Tuesday to call off his uprising in Najaf, and on the battlefront US troops pounded militia positions near the country&#39;s holiest sites.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A radical Shi'ite cleric and Iraq's  interim prime minister made gestures on Friday to defuse a  two-week uprising in Najaf, after ferocious U.S. air strikes  and heavy fighting killed at least 77 people.
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In an internal assessment given to Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, a senior intelligence analyst and a military planner for the U.S. command in Baghdad call for shifting U.S. strategy in Iraq away from counterinsurgency and toward peace enforcement, and they suggest that the Shiite-led ruling coalition...