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 more tightly curbed under government control.
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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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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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The leader of an al-Qaida umbrella group in Iraq threatened to wage war against Iran unless it stops supporting Shiites in Iraq within two months, according to an audiotape released Sunday.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Iraq's ruling Shi'ite leaders on Friday urged neighboring and Western powers to join forces to prevent their country from sliding into all-out civil war that could spread across the region.
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Iraq&#39;s most powerful Shiite cleric is opposing a drive by prominent Sunni and Kurdish political factions to delay elections scheduled for Jan. 30, an aide to the cleric and Shiite leaders said Saturday.
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Analysis: Shi'ites and Sunnis accuse the U.S. of deliberately failing to protect them from each other, as raging violence mocks the idea that Iraqis are almost ready handle their own security
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The U.S. military said Wednesday it's concerned about Iraq's Shiite Medhi militia, although its leader, anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, remains in neighboring Iran.
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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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NAJAF, Iraq, August 25.âThe Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has called on Iraqis to go to the sacred city of Najaf to expel the US troops and save it from attacks by the occupying forces, stated Hamad Al-Jaffaf, head of his cabinet, on Al Arabiya television
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on Monday for his followers across Iraq to end fighting against U.S. and Iraqi forces, an al-Sadr aide said...
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August 31, 2004 -- BAGHDAD - Rebel Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has told his militia to end attacks on US and Iraqi government forces, aides said yesterday.
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Iran could play a crucial role in curbing Iraq's Shiite militias if the U.S. opens a dialogue with Tehran as recommended by the Iraq Study Group, many in the Mideast say.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Delegates at Iraq's National Conference called on radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to abandon his uprising against U.S. and Iraqi troops and pull his fighters out of a holy shrine in Najaf...
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Anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr yesterday ordered his Al Mahdi Army gunmen to halt all hostilities for six months so he can restore the militia to credibility in the eyes of Iraqis shaken by a deadly outbreak of Shi'ite-on-Shi'ite violence.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - An Iraqi peace delegation urged a  radical Shi'ite cleric to call off his uprising in the city of  Najaf Tuesday, where U.S. troops pounded militia positions near  the country's holiest Islamic sites.
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The new leader of Iraqâs most powerful Shiite party says an immediate U.S. withdrawal would be harmful. Amar Hakimâs views on America, Iran and the more radical Moqtada al-Sadr.