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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All sides can claim partial victory in the Najaf crisis' resolution. Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has proven his power by securing a peace deal, and renegade Muqtada al-Sadr has escaped with his militia movement intact.
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The rocket attack temporarily overshadowed a pledge by a top aide to Moktada al-Sadr to disarm his militia.
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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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US vehicles take up positions around edge of Iraqi capital's Sadr City district.
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Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has just arrived in Najaf to try to end the stand-off involving Shia fighters led by the radical cleric, Moqtada Sadr.
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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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Followers of radical Iraqi Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have begun handing in weapons as part of a peace deal aimed at ending weeks of fighting in a Baghdad slum.
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FIGHTERS loyal to firebrand Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have been allowed to keep weapons such as AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenade launchers as part of secret provisions in a deal that ended the 22-day siege of the holy city of Najaf.
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If the agreement is fulfilled  and al-Sadr has made contradictory statements in the past  it would resolve a crisis that had angered many of Iraq&#39;s majority Shiites and threatened to undermine the fledgling interim government of Prime Minister ...
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Thousands of demonstrators supporting and hundreds opposing Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr took to the streets in Iraq on Friday as U.S. soldiers fought insurgents in Baghdad's Sadr City and near Falluja.
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BAGHDAD, May 25 -- Moqtada al-Sadr, the influential Shiite cleric and militia leader who went into hiding before the launch of a U.S.-Iraqi security offensive in February, made his first public appearance in months today, delivering a sermon before thousands of worshipers at a mosque in the south...
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Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has reportedly called on his followers to end fighting against US and Iraqi forces. Naim Al-Kaabi, an aide to al-Sadr in Baghdad, said the cleric has &quot;called for a halting
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The resumption of urban warfare over the past two weeks in the Shiite holy city of Najaf in Iraq reflects forces far beyond the Mehdi Army of radical Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr and the American-installed interim Iraqi government ...
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KARBALA, Iraq -- Posted at the door of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's office recently, a flier denounced the arrest of his followers. Up and down the barricaded street, soldiers and policemen loyal to his Shiite rivals stood sentry, some in tan armored personnel carriers, questioning anyone they...
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This week's intense clashes between the Iraqi army and a Shiite militia are part of a strategy to whittle away the power of a radical cleric. But the high-risk gambit could trigger more fighting across the Shiite south &#151; at a time when the cleric's stronghold in the capital is virtually off-limits.
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A spokesman for leading Shia authority Ayat Allah Ali al-Sistani tells reporters outside the ailing cleric&#39;s Najaf home that a peaceful resolution to the standoff that has marred the city is within reach.