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  • Iraq Militant Vows 'Peaceful Resistance' (More Sadr B.S.)

    07/05/2004 10:28:25 AM PDT · by ApesForEvolution · 14 replies · 405+ views
    AP via Yahoo News ^ | Monday, July 5th, 2004 | By NADIA ABOU EL-MAGD, Associated Press Writer
    BAGHDAD, Iraq - The spokesman for militant Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr tempered threats to continue fighting Monday, saying his movement only planned to wage "peaceful resistance" against the interim government. Al-Sadr issued a statement Sunday from his office in the Shiite holy city of Najaf calling the new interim Iraqi government "illegitimate" and pledging "to continue resisting oppression and occupation to our last drop of blood." But Sadr's spokesman in Baghdad, Mahmoud al-Soudani, called a news conference Monday to clarify that the statement was not a call to arms. He said that many of al-Sadr's supporters in Baghdad had begun...