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	Mahdi Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mahdi Army began as a small group of roughly 500 seminary students connected with Moqtada al-Sadr in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, formerly known as Saddam City.
		Sadr appears to be planning to turn his faction into a political party, having gained a good deal of public support.
		US troops arrested Sadr's representative in Karbala, Sheikh Mithal al Hasnawi on 31 July [2] and surrounded al-Sadr's home on 3 August, resulting in heavy gunfire, mortar shelling and grenade blasts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al-Mahdi_Army (1923 words)

	Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) - memri.de (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Moqtada Al-Sadr [1] was born in 1974, the son of one of the most illustrious Shi'a religious families in Iraq, the Al-Sadr family.
		Moqtada Al-Sadr admitted that the situation in Iraq today differs from the situation that prevailed in Iran during the Islamic revolution in 1979.
		Moqtada Al-Sadr's apparently contradictory statements may reflect his own dilemma of having to walk a tight rope between his youthful rebellion and his desire to play a key role in shaping the future of Iraq which, at least for the short term, must avoid unnecessary confrontations with the occupation forces.
	www.memri.de /uebersetzungen_analysen/laender/persischer_golf/irak_sadr_11_02_04.html (2231 words)

	Muqtada al-Sadr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the end of March 2004, Coalition authorities in Iraq shut down Sadr's newspaper, Al Hawza, on charges of inciting violence (as a side note, al-Hawza is also the name of a religious college in Najaf which was headed by his father).
		Sadr responded by mobilizing many Shi'a followers to demonstrations protesting the closure of the newspaper; the demonstrations escalated throughout the week in number and militancy.
		Sadr representatives condemned the move, reportedly saying "We demand that they be freed, and if this is ignored then we will respond at the appropriate time" [8].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moqtada_al-Sadr (2894 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Profile \| Moqtada Al-Sadr: Leader of orphans
		Moqtada is the fourth son of Mohammed Mohammed Sadeq Al-Sadr.
		Moqtada's confusion is evident not only in his manner of speaking, but in the substance of what he says, even to the point that has been heard to contradict himself within the space of a single day.
		The Sadr movement, however, is supported by the clans that migrated to the city from the south, specifically from the governorates of Imara and Basra.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/692/profile.htm (2452 words)

	Who Is Moqtada Sadr? (washingtonpost.com)
		Moqtada Sadr is a 30-year-old Shiite cleric from a poor neighborhood of Baghdad who has long opposed the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
		Moqtada Sadr arrives at a press conference Aug. 9 at the shrine of Imam Ali in the battered holy Shiite city of Najaf.
		Sadr is wanted for his alleged role in the April 2003 killing of a rival cleric, who was hacked to death by a mob in Najaf.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A57949-2004Apr7.html (813 words)

	Moqtada al-Sadr - SourceWatch
		Moqtada al-Sadr (also spelled Muqtada al-Sadr), according to the April 9, 2004, Washington Post "QandA: Who is Moqtada al-Sadr?" by Jefferson Morley, is "a 30-year old Shiite cleric from a poor neighborhood of Baghdad who has long opposed the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
		"Sadr's headquarters are in Najaf and the armed wing of his organisation, the Mehdi Army, has been playing an increasingly high-profile role there and in Baghdad and Kerbala.
		Sadr, however, has floated the idea of creating 'a ministry to promote virtue and prevent vices', which is the kind of rhetoric associated with Afghanistan under the Taliban.
	www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Moqtada_al-Sadr (1242 words)

	The Daily Star - Opinion Articles - The disquieting ascent of Moqtada al-Sadr
		Sadr's style is fundamentally un-Islamic, and his men's conduct is reminiscent of the brutality inflicted upon Iraqis under Saddam's regime.
		Sadr has also threatened to unleash suicide bombers against US forces, and in a statement posted to his website on May 9, he warned: "The things that the enemy saw us doing in the past few weeks are a mere fraction of what we are capable of.
		Sadr's movement did not participate in the talks, and his spokespersons have since argued that his movement does not constitute a "militia" in the true sense of the term and, therefore, cannot be disbanded.
	www.dailystar.com.lb /article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=5418 (1369 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| 'I am ready to shed my blood'
		A mediator also came with a message from the Americans, he said, asking Mr Sadr to present a lawyer to negotiate the charges against him, in which he is suspected of involvement in the murder a year ago of a moderate cleric, Abdul Majid al-Khoei, who was killed inside the Imam Ali shrine itself.
		"Moqtada represents and expresses the opinions of all the Iraqi society," said Hassan Jasim, 35, the headmaster and Arabic teacher at the largest school in the neighbourhood, the Two Rivers boys' secondary school.
		Mr Jasim and his colleagues in the staff room agreed that the appeal of Mr Sadr, the son of a respected cleric murdered by Saddam Hussein's agents in 1999, was that he, unlike the other leading Shia clerics, had spoken out publicly against the US occupation and refused to negotiate.
	www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,1187261,00.html (1034 words)

	Dossier: The Sadrist Movement (July 2003)
		Until recently, US officials in Iraq had largely ignored Sadr, regarded by the Shiite clerical establishment as a young firebrand with modest religious credentials who is capitalizing on the reputation of his late father.
		Sadr's influence was greatest in the Shiite suburb east of Baghdad formerly known as Saddam City, but unofficially known by its original name, Madinat al-Thawra (City of the Revolution).
		When Sadr mistook a recent military deployment near his house for American preparations to arrest him, he even managed to mobilize 10,000 demonstrators in Najaf (many, if not most, of whom traveled from Sadr City to put on the show of strength).
	www.meib.org /articles/0307_iraqd.htm (1937 words)

	May 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Twenty insurgents loyal to Moqtada al-Sadr are killed by Coalition forces during a raid on the Selah mosque compound in Kufa, Iraq.
		Video is released of the decapitation of Nick Berg, a U.S. civilian, murdered by an Islamist group allegedly in retaliation for the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib Prison.
		George W. Bush speaks on the Al Arabiya and Alhurra Arabic-language television networks, stating he was 'appalled' at the conduct of U.S. soldiers in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/May_2004 (5251 words)

	The Raw Story \| Dealing with Moqtada al Sadr, and failed communication
		Sadr, often described a “firebrand cleric,” has broad support from disaffected Shiites in the south of Iraq, near the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala, as well as in the various neighborhoods in Baghdad.
		Sadr claims that one person was killed and six wounded in the exchange; marines are claiming two were killed in the incident.
		Considering one of Sadr’s aides was arrested in a raid on a convoy heading from Najaf to Kufa on Friday, it seemed like another raid on Sadr was entirely plausible.
	www.rawstory.com /exclusives/santiago/live_from_baghdad_moqtada_al_sadr_803.htm (944 words)

	The Daily Star - Opinion Articles - Iran and Moqtada al-Sadr: the limits of cooperation
		Sadr's trip to Iran in June 2003, to participate in ceremonies commemorating the 14th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Khomeini, was used by the Iranians to assess Sadr and examine any opportunities for collaboration.
		Sadr's main military adviser, Ali al-Baydani, is known to have spent many years in the Qom seminaries, and was once an operative of the Quds Brigades of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
		Although Sadr met the leadership of the Islamic Republic, including the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, and the head of the judiciary, Mahmoud Shahrudi, he was not particularly well received by them.
	www.dailystar.com.lb /article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=2676 (1416 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| Who's who in Iraq: Moqtada Sadr
		The youngest son of Muhammad Sadiq Sadr - a senior Shia cleric assassinated in 1999, reportedly by agents of the Iraqi Government - Moqtada Sadr was virtually unknown outside Iraq before the US-led invasion in March 2003.
		Moqtada Sadr denounced the August 2003 attack on the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad.
		Moqtada Sadr's appeal to the Shia poor and dispossessed accounts for much of his popularity.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/3131330.stm (739 words)

	Iraq'd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In addition to the political differences between the two men--Sistani's patient challenges to the occupation versus Sadr's violence--their theological differences are irreconcilable: Sadr and Sistani espouse opposing interpretations of the role of the Islamic clergy in governance, with Sadr pushing Iranian-style "guardianship of the jurisprudent" (vilayat-i faqih) and Sistani rejecting it.
		Sadr supporters established an armed presence at police stations and hospitals and set up checkpoints at the entrance to the city.
		Some Najaf residents expressed disgust at Sadr's battle with the U.S. "We can hardly believe that we finally got rid of Saddam after 35 years and could start a new life, and now with this new crisis of Moqtada, everything that we have tried to build is collapsing," said Abu Mustapha, an agricultural engineer.
	www.tnr.com /blog/iraqd?pid=1539 (620 words)

	Sadr the agitator: like father, like son \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But the Sadr in question is not Moqtada, the young cleric whose gunmen now occupy Kufa and the neighboring shrine city of Najaf.
		Moqtada refers to the US as "Yazid," the name of the Ummayid Caliph whose men killed Imam Hussein, and talks about the martyrdom of both his own father and his uncle, the prominent Ayatollah and philosopher Mohammed Bakr al-Sadr, killed by the Hussein regime in 1980.
		Moqtada, who's variously described as 31 or 33 years old, took control of his father's organization, going underground to build a network of clandestine cells with the goal of overthrowing the Hussein regime and establishing a Shiite theocracy.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0427/p01s03-woiq.html (1940 words)

	Belmont Club: August 2004
		Sadr, a young man still in his thirties, has provided that magnetic, almost irresistible draw: a place for young people where something is happening.
		Moqtada Al Sadr has issued a modest list of demands in his negotiations with the Iraqi government, simply requiring the expulsion of the Allawi government from Najaf and his recognition as de facto potentate of the region.
		The spotlight on Al Qaeda's true stature is complemented, atmospherically at least, by the fearful drubbing that Moqtada Al Sadr's "militia" received at the hands of the US Marines.
	belmontclub.blogspot.com /2004_08_01_belmontclub_archive.html (14564 words)

	The New Saddam- by Justin Raimondo
		Moqtada al-Sadr is a radical, he's got a big bushy beard, and is
		What's interesting is that, instead of accusing Sadr of committing acts of sedition and rebellion against the Occupation Authority, and going after him on that basis, the CPA has announced that "an Iraqi judge" has issued a warrant for Sadr.
		My guess is that, with Sadr holed up in the Shi'ite holy of holies, we're in for an Iraqi version of the siege of Waco.
	www.antiwar.com /justin?articleid=2265 (1310 words)

	Iraq Profile: Moqtada al-Sadr : SF Bay Area Indymedia
		Moqtada Al-Sadr was born in 1974, the son of one of the most illustrious Shi'a religious families in Iraq, the Al-Sadr family.
		Sadr, like Sistani and the Shiite hierarchy, is based in Najaf, a city holy to Shiites because it contains the tomb of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the Prophet Mohammed’s cousin and son-in-law and the top leader, or Caliph, of Islam in the 7th century.
		On October 16, Sadr’s faction—whose challenges to U.S. authority were increasingly brazen—attempted to take over the building that housed the offices of the U.S.-appointed Sadr City neighborhood council and install its own leaders.
	www.indybay.org /news/2004/04/1676102.php (2698 words)

	Iraq'd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		SADR ALL OVER THE PLACE: The New York Times has an excellent story about the recently-ignored Moqtada Al Sadr's dual-tracked strategies for the election.
		Sadr has in fact "quietly approved" of the inclusion of 20 of his followers on the United Iraqi Alliance ticket; he's allowed a 180-candidate (wow) slate of Sadrists called the Independent National Leaders to run against the Alliance; and all the while he's publicly boycotting the vote.
		Despite an apparent suspension of hostilities between the U.S., Iyad Allawi and Sadr in October, Sadr's followers are routinely arrested on suspicion of causing violence.
	www.tnr.com /blog/iraqd?pid=2473 (525 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| US bans cleric from Iraq elections
		Moqtada al-Sadr, the radical Shia leader whose militiamen have been fighting the US occupation forces in several Iraqi cities, was banned yesterday from standing in Iraq's forthcoming democratic elections.
		Even if Mr Sadr disbanded his Mahdi Army in the next few weeks it would be too late for him to join Iraq's political process and contest the elections, due in January.
		The ban on the militia members taking part in political life is a gamble, since it carries the risk that it will increase Mr Sadr's popularity and undermine the new government's search for democratic credibility in the eyes of the sceptical Iraqi public.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /iraq/story/0,12956,1233652,00.html (772 words)

	Sadr plays to power of martyrdom \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sadr is trying to position himself in a long line of powerful populist Shiite martyrs.
		While Sadr is not a high-level cleric in the Shiite hierarchy, his ability to tap into religious and cultural forces may vault him over the heads of higher-level Shiite leaders such as Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
		Sadr is only the latest of his family members to toy with martyrdom.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0812/p01s02-woiq.html (1549 words)

	Arrest Warrant Issued for Moqtada al Sadr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sadr must have figured out what was going on once this Yacoubi guy was picked up and unleashed his thugs in order to prevent his own arrest.
		This whole episode against Sadr may be a kick in the groin to the Iranian element in Iraq and a gift to Sistani to keep his folks in line until the handover.
		Mr Sadr's popularity is based in part on the ability of his supporters to provide basic services and security to parts of Sadr city immediately after the US-led bombing.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1111673/posts?page=25 (2636 words)

	Najaf showdown as US moves to rout holy army - After Saddam - www.smh.com.au
		A further 44 died in clashes in Baghdad, and 25 in the fighting in Najaf.
		Ahmed al-Shibani, a spokesman for Sadr in the city, said the young cleric was leading the defence.
		Sadr has refused to surrender and ordered his men to keep fighting if he is killed or captured.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/08/12/1092102598757.html (620 words)

	Al-Mahdi Army / Active Religious Seminary / Al-Sadr's Group
		His supporters chant Sadr's name at rallies to imply that he is the "son of the Mahdi." Sadr has stated that the army "belongs to the Mahdi" as an explanation of why he cannot disband it, as has been required of other private militias.
		The militia wing of this movement is known as the "Mahdi Army" and was estimated as of early 2004 to consist of about 500-1000 trained combatants along with another 5,000-6,000 active participants.
		Muhammad al Mahdi (the guided) is the 12th and last Imam of the Twelver Shi'i, and is also known as Muhammad al Muntazar (the awaited).
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/para/al-sadr.htm (4133 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| Into the breach
		The eruption of the Al-Sadr volcano is, once again, scorching the city of Najaf and several other cities in the south, not to mention Baghdad's largest Shia stronghold, Sadr City.
		Moqtada Al-Sadr's success in acquiring power is more a result of the failure of others to fill the power vacuum than his own charisma.
		They must also realise that calling on the Americans to bomb holy cities on their behalf is not the way to garner support and cultivate favour ahead of future elections.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/703/re9.htm (807 words)

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