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BAGHDAD - Gunmen assassinated a top aide of anti-American leader Muqtada al-Sadr on Friday, sharpening a Shiite power struggle that has already triggered fighting between the cleric's followers and the U.S.-backed Iraqi government. Riyadh al-Nouri, director of al-Sadr's office in Najaf, was gunned down by an unknown number of assailants near his home after returning from prayer services, police and Sadrist officials said.
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No personality dominates the current situation in Iraq as much as that of Muqtada al-Sadr. As the leader of a grass-roots coalition of Shi'a militias known as the Jaish al Mahdi (JAM, or the Mahdi Army) whose obstinacy has vexed the United States, the government of Iraq and, perhaps surprisingly, Iran, al-Sadr has positioned himself as the critical figure in this crucial period of Iraq's post-Saddam history. Al-Sadr's father, Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr, was one of the most highly respected figures in the Shi'a world, and his assassination, ordered by Saddam Hussein in February 1999, propelled Muqtada into prominence as the heir apparent.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Gunmen loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ambushed an Iraqi patrol in an eastern Baghdad slum Sunday, and U.S. forces joined the 90-minute battle, killing as many as eight attackers in the first significant violence in the neighborhood in nearly a year. Elsewhere in Baghdad, armed men pulled off a daring armored car robbery, killing two guards and escaping with $850,000, and a suicide car bomber slammed into a convoy carrying Interior Ministry commandos, killing seven of them and two civilians. South of the capital, two separate bicycle bombings in town markets killed at least seven people and wounded dozens.
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BAGHDAD - The Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr rarely ventures into the public eye. But he's never far from the minds of Iraq's leaders as one of the nation's most influential and wily political survivors. It appears he has managed again to turn a potential blow to his advantage.
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Tres civiles japoneses, un canadiense, un árabe israelí y un árabe de Jerusalén-este fueron secuestrados entre el miércoles y el jueves en Irak donde desde el domingo cientos de iraquíes y más de 40 soldados de coalición murieron en combates con la guerrilla sunnita y la milicia chiíta que lidera Muqtada Sadr. Sánchez admitió que la milicia al-Mahdi, grupo armado liderado por el clérigo chiíta Muqtada al-Sadr, tomó la ciudad de Kut y tiene control de parte de la ciudad sagrada de Nayaf. La resistencia iraquí desalojó el miércoles a las tropas ucranianas de sus bases en Kut. Hasta ahora no habíamos visto ese nivel de planificación en otras partes", indicó. "Mi evaluación es que continuaremos viendo esta violencia por algún tiempo hasta que Muqtada al-Sadr se rinda o su milicia sea des...
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BAGHDAD - The political party loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called Monday for the dissolution of Iraq's parliament and new elections in another move that could escalate the country's growing sectarian crisis. The anti-American Sadrist bloc is a partner in the Shiite- dominated government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Bahaa al- Aaraji, the head of the Sadrists' bloc in parliament, said the elections are needed because of instability in the country and problems that threaten Iraq's sovereignty.
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NAJAF, Iraq - U.S. forces stepped up pressure on Shiite gunmen loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, pushing with tanks into the holy city of Kufa and assaulting militia positions in the narrow streets of a Shiite enclave in Baghdad. At least 34 Iraqis were killed. The heaviest fighting in Baghdad came when militiamen from al- Sadr's Al-Mahdi Army attacked police stations and set up checkpoints in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City, a heavily populated district in the eastern part of the capital, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said.
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BAGHDAD - The political party loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called Monday for the dissolution of Iraq's parliament and new elections in another move that could escalate the country's growing sectarian crisis. The anti-American Sadrist bloc is a partner in the Shiite- dominated government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Bahaa al- Aaraji, the head of the Sadrists' bloc in parliament, said the elections are needed because of instability in the country and problems that threaten Iraq's sovereignty.
