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OPINION: Well now, this sure sounds like a no-no Al-Sadr.

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Radical Shiite cleric al-Sadr says Arabs meeting in Syria must support resistance
Published: 03.29.08, 12:15 / Israel News

Anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has called on Arab leaders meeting in Syria to voice their support for Iraq’s “resistance” To what he calls foreign occupation.

Al-Jazeera television has shown a brief clip of an interview with the Mahdi Army militia leader. The broadcast is the first word from the reclusive Iraqi cleric since Iraq’s government launched a crackdown against Shiite militia violence in the southern oil port of Basra earlier this week. (AP)

http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html

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You’re WHERE with WHOM?!!!

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19 Tense Hours in Sadr City Alongside the Mahdi Army
washington post ^ | March 29, 2008 | By Sudarsan Raghavan
Posted on 03/29/2008 4:32:03 AM PDT by Flavius

BAGHDAD, March 28 — The gunfire struck like thunderclaps, building to a steady rhythm. American soldiers in a Stryker armored vehicle fired away from one end of the block. At the other end, two groups of Shiite militiamen pounded back with heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. American helicopters circled above in the blue afternoon sky.

As a heavy barrage erupted outside his parents’ house, Abu Mustafa al-Thahabi, a political and military adviser to the Mahdi Army of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, rushed through the purple gate and took shelter behind the thick walls. He had just spoken with a fighter by cellphone. “I told him not to use that weapon. It’s not effective,” he said, referring to a rocket-propelled grenade. “I told him to use the IED, the Iranian one,” he added, using the shorthand for an improvised explosive device. “This is more effective.”

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