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  • Muqtada al-Sader eager to cooperate (but wants to form "al-Mahdi Army" in Iraq?)

    11/03/2003 1:45:28 PM PST · by Sabertooth · 16 replies · 506+ views
    Arabic News ^ | November 3rd, 2003
    The Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sader had considered "Saddam Hussein and his followers as the enemy of Iraq, rather than the Americans," whom he described as "guests" in Iraq. In a statement circulated in al-Najaf city and the Iraqi daily published excerpts of its yesterday, al-Sader said that Americans are "peace loving people" and the existence of the American forces in Iraq are "that of guests," calling for that the "holy month of Ramadan will be 'the month of meeting of Iraqis and Americans in circles of peace and amity'." Al-Sader stressed the need of preventing "bloodshed and wars and terrorism...