Radical Iraq Cleric Confounds U.S. Allies Knight Ridder Drew Brown October 15, 2003 (BAGHDAD) -- Coalition officials say a radical young cleric named Moqtader al-Sadr is behind a recent spate of suicide bombings and political assassinations that he is using to try to gain power over Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority. But they have not yet decided how to deal with him for fear of touching off even worse violence. Coalition officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, say they now think that a car bombing Sunday at the Baghdad Hotel was a Sadr-inspired assassination attempt against Mowaffak al-Rubaie, a moderate Shiite...