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  • How Iraqi judge cornered Sadr

    04/19/2004 7:49:02 AM PDT · by Valin · 26 replies · 311+ views
    The Australian ^ | 4/17/04 | Peter Wilson
    Journalist of the Year Peter Wilson is the first reporter to obtain a brief charging Moqtada al-Sadr with killing a pro-Western rival THE radical young cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is today holed up in Iraq's sacred city of Najaf, trying to negotiate a face-saving compromise after failing to ignite a general uprising among the nation's Shi'ite Muslim majority. But Sadr's future does not rest with the clerics and other go-betweens who are hoping to avert a bloody showdown between his 1000-strong militia and the 2500 US troops ringing Najaf. The fate of Sadr - the angry 30-year-old who last week pledged...