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	Muqtada al-Sadr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Muqtada al-Sadr gained popularity among younger Iraqis following the toppling of the Hussein government by the 2003 invasion of Iraq, mostly owing to his status as his father's son, as he has no formal religious standing to interpret the Koran and relies for religious advice on an Iranian cleric exiled in Iraq, Ayatollah Kazem al-Haeri.
		As Muqtada al-Sadr lacks the religious education and degrees required by Shia doctrines, he does not claim the title of mujtahid (the equivalent of a senior religious scholar) or the authority to issue fatwas (religious edicts), consequently he bases his religious authority on his lineage alone.
		Muqtada's father-in-law was also killed by the same regime in 1980.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Muqtada_al-Sadr (3135 words)

	the fourth rail
		Muqtada al-Sadr is a 30 year old Shiite cleric backed by the Iranian government who advocates an Islamic government based on the Iran model.
		Sadr has sorely miscalculated the timing of his violence, as the US military is in the middle of a troop rotation.
		Sadr was known to be a problem since the beginning of the liberation, but he was given the chance to show he could work within the rules of the newly forming government.
	thefourthrail.blogspot.com /2004/04/sadr-spain-again.html (420 words)

	Understanding Muqtada al-Sadr - Middle East Quarterly - Fall 2004
		Muqtada's isolation among the religious establishment, his inconsistency and inexperience, the resentment he engenders among the people of Najaf because of the hardships his rebellion has brought, as well as the balance of military force in favor of the interim government all disadvantage him.
		Muqtada may not have inherited his father's religious legitimacy, but the large number of Shi‘ites who follow him do so not because of his status as a marja' or religious authority, but because for them, he is the symbol and the personification of Sadr's legitimacy.
		The case of Muqtada is emblematic of the inability of the coalition forces to understand the texture of the Iraqi political culture in timely fashion or to construct and successfully execute plans to deal with those who would subvert the forces' goals.
	www.meforum.org /article/655 (4642 words)

	Muqtada Al-Sadr: A Voice of Resistance
		Muqtada’s father, Imam Muhammad Sadiq Al-Sadr who was loved and respected for his opposition to the regime of Saddam Hussein was assassinated with his two other sons in Najaf in 1999.
		The allegation that Muqtada Al-Sadr is supported by Iran is unfounded and untrue.
		Muqtada was the first to denounce the Occupation and acknowledge publicly that the Americans were in Iraq to stay and rob the country of its wealth.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article6794.htm (1260 words)

	Sadr seeking to make peace in Iraq
		Muqtada al-Sadr, who commands thousands of militia fighters in the capital's slums, sent a delegation to meet with Sunni leaders and appeal for an end to tensions.
		Sadr's gesture followed Saturday's vow by Sunni clerics, politicians and tribal leaders to unite to recover a measure of the political clout they enjoyed before their patron Saddam Hussein was ousted.
		Sadr, who had been in hiding since a high-profile clash with U.S.-led forces last August, told Al-Arabiya satellite television that he had returned to the political scene to try to reconcile Muslim factions.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05143/508944.stm (599 words)

	The Revealer: Thug Life Iraq
		Sadr sounds here like a kind of trickster figure, practicing verbal rope-a-dope on American journalists who, after all, are coming to the conversation with a distinct disadvantage: Sadr may have been watching the Americans on CNN for years, while "60 Minutes II" is parachuting into a culture it doesn’t understand.
		Sadr may not be a religious authority -- he says as much in the interview -- but he can surely see that a novice, by his standards, has been sent to interrogate him.
		Sadr goes for the truck-sized opening Simon has given him: “I have to obey this order whatever it might be.
	www.therevealer.org /archives/daily_000331.php (971 words)

	Al-Mahdi Army / Active Religious Seminary / Al-Sadr's Group
		Muqtada al-Sadr formed the Jama'at al-Sadr al-Thani (Association of the Second al-Sadr) as the key organization of the al-Sadr family network.
		Sheik Muqtada al-Sadr and his young followers have sought to replace more traditional factions as the voice of Iraq's Shiite majority.
		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.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/para/al-sadr.htm (4133 words)

	Dossier: The Sadrist Movement (July 2003)
		Muqtada al-Sadr's announcement about the establishment of the Jaish al-Mahdi (Army of the Mahdi) is unlikely to amount to much due to American disapproval of private armies and the Sadrists' own lack of experience in these endeavors.
		Even if the movement splits up and the charismatic leadership of Muqtada al-Sadr is either restrained or brought to a sudden halt, the tribal puritanism that is the legacy of his murdered father is likely to remain a significant force in Iraqi politics.
		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).
	www.meib.org /articles/0307_iraqd.htm (1937 words)

	Muqtada al-Sadr
		Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, the uncle of Muqtada al-Sadr, was born in the city of Kazimayn, Iraq on Dhil Qu'dah, 25, 1353 A.H/2.3.1933 CE.
		Muqtada al-Sadr announced his intention to form an Islamic state in Iraq by establishing a shadow government there, complete with ministries.
		Sadr's spokesmen sent mixed messages, with one saying al-Sadr wanted to reinstate the truce, and another saying he had declared America the enemy and urged his followers to fight on.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/al-sadr.htm (2470 words)

	Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Observers note that their social base is quite different, with Sistani's support strong among the Shiite property-owning classes, and Muqtada's stronger among the urban poor, who provide most of the members of the Mehdi army.
		His preeminence was cemented after the assassination of Sadr by Saddam Hussein.
		On the Eve of the 2003 invasion, His fatwa as the Shia Supreme leader to Iraqis not to resist the occupation forces helped achieve a swift victory for the allied forces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ali_al-Sistani (1380 words)

	Muqtada al-Sadr
		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.
		Sadr has called his armed followers, who fought coalition forces in several Iraqi cities over the weekend, “the enemy of the occupation” and has condemned Iraqis who cooperate with the coalition.
		They owe Sadr some allegiance out of respect for his lineage and because of the services his social network provides, but, until recently, were not willing to stand up to the Americans on his behalf.
	vialardi.org /IRAQ/muqtada.html (1775 words)

	The Daily Star - Politics - Sadr boycotts upcoming polls in Iraq
		Sadr, who re-emerged Friday in Kufa, near the holy city of Najaf, after keeping a low public profile for the past two months, has dismissed interim Premier Iyad Allawi as an instrument of the US-led occupation.
		Sadr agreed to a truce in June after waging a two-month rebellion against US forces in which hundreds of his fighters and civilians were killed.
		Earlier this month, Sadr's main spokesmen both in Baghdad and the southern city of Najaf said his supporters would snub the conference because of disagreements over the way the participants were being chosen.
	www.dailystar.com.lb /article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=6616 (599 words)

	Muqtada al-Sadr A profile
		Muqtada al-Sadr found a great deal of space for manoeuvre - as is the case with all Iraq& political and religious factions.
		Muqtada al-Sadr has maintained his rejection of the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council and has actively advocated the so-called "faithfully Islamic government".
		On 28 March 2004, the US occupation authorities ordered the closure of al-Hawza newspaper, published by Muqtada al-Sadr, alleging it was inciting violence.
	www.countercurrents.org /iraq-alsadr080404.htm (581 words)

	Iraqi Religious Leaders Press Occupation Forces For Exit Date
		Al Saadi also demanded the adherence to Sharia as the source of law for all crimes other than treason, and he supported Muqtada Al-Sadr's call to hold a demonstration to ask the occupiers to schedule their exit.
		Young Shiite leader Muqtada Al-Sadr called for a demonstration of a million people to demand that the occupiers [U.S.-led coalition forces] exit the country, and demanded that Islamic law [Sharia] be the source of all legislation.
		Washington's old nemisis, Muqtada Al-Sadr, is calling for a million-person march to demand an end to the occupation, while other Imams call for the imposition of Sharia law, a release of insurgents from Iraq's prisons, and an end to nepotism.
	www.watchingamerica.com /iraq4all000003.html (570 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Iraqi cleric hints at violence against US
		Sadr's followers galvanized as the US-led occupation faced rising popular anger in the mostly Sunni Muslim city of Fallujah, where a mob ripped apart the corpses of four US contractors killed in an ambush on Wednesday.
		Sadr's movement has gained new momentum in the past week, drawing thousands of supporters to the streets for three of the past four days to protest moves by occupation authorities, who shut down Sadr's newspaper a week ago and who reportedly detained a cleric close to him yesterday.
		Sadr draws his support from the reputation of his father, Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq Sadr, who was assassinated in 1999 by gunmen who were believed to be working for Saddam Hussein.
	www.boston.com /news/world/articles/2004/04/04/iraqi_cleric_hints_at_violence_against_us (1016 words)

	Muqtada al-Sadr
		Sadr’s loyalists indicated back then already, in an awesome display of power, that it will not be easy for the Americans to detain their leader, demanding that the siege be lifted, a US apology, and an American departure from the holy city of Najaf.
		Notably, Sadr also charged that American forces are spreading diseases in Iraq and subsequently called to expel them and to set up isolated zones at border areas in order to examine anyone entering the country.[10] Sadr also attacked the UN for contributing to the occupation of Iraq.
		Similarly, a continuing Sadr consolidation of power is likely to constitute a short and medium-term threat to the Americans, as the US power-transfer to the Iraqi people and general elections in the country (expected to be held in July 2004) approach.
	www.ict.org.il /articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=511 (2594 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Iraq
		Muqtada al-Sadr is a young Shia cleric who has seized the attention of the Americans and much of the rest of the world.
		Al-Sadr is a vocal opponent of the Iraqi interim government and his militia has been fighting with the U.S. and Iraqi armies in Najaf and the Sadr City section of Baghdad.
		"The people of Iraq are supportive of what they call the Sadr movement… and I am the leader," al-Sadr said in an interview with the CBC in April 2004.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/iraq/al_sadr_crowe.html (522 words)

	Moqtada al-Sadr - SourceWatch
		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.
		"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's father, a religious leader, was shot dead in 1999, allegedly by Saddam Hussein's henchmen, but he has little affection for the US-led coalition who deposed the dictator, and he is virulently against the occupation.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Moqtada_al-Sadr (1252 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs
		Muqtada inherited the mantle from his father, the Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Sadiq al-Sadr, who was killed by Saddam in Najaf in 1999.
		Muqtada claims that this is untrue, saying that this is the objective of his rival, the Iran-backed Hakim.
		Muqtada is willing to join the political process and is willing to silence, or curb, his opposition to the US military in Iraq.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/GI24Ak01.html (2794 words)

	Muqtada al-Sadr
		Muqtada's has emerged as the most influential resistance leader against the US involvement in Iraq, and the US supported Iraqi authorities.
		His stronghold is the holy city of Najaf, but he has much support in places like Sadr City (part of Baghdad), Nasiriyah and Al Amarah.
		This leaves Muqtada as the actual leader of Shi'is of Najaf.
	i-cias.com /e.o/m_sadr.htm (354 words)

	ZNet Iraq America's Unlikely Savior
		Among Muqtada Sadr's followers it was common to hear the view that the U.S. Army had come to kill the Mahdi, but that the Mahdi would kill all the Americans -- and all the Jews too, for good measure.
		Muqtada's clerics held joint prayer sessions with them, and in the fateful spring of 2004, when Fallujah rose up against the Americans, followed by an uprising of Shiites in the south, Shiite followers of Muqtada helped their Sunni brethren and benefited from aid and arms sent at the behest of the AMS.
		Muqtada's father, the Second Martyr, had built an impressive network of mosques and social services around the country, controlled by his former students, and Muqtada capitalized on this network, dispatching young clerics around the country to seize mosques, hospitals, clinics, and looted goods, and to provide security and social services.
	www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=9665 (2732 words)

	Muqtada al-Sadr - dKosopedia
		Muqtada al-Sadr has capitalized on the following of his late father to amass a power base in Iraq under the American occupation.
		He also published the al Hawza newspaper, which was shut down by Coalition authorities on March 28, 2004 under charges that it was inciting violence.
		One group of his followers is organized as the paramilitary al Mahdi Army.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Muqtada_al-Sadr (108 words)

	Muqtada al-Sadr
		Muqtada al-Sadr is a fundamentalist Shiite cleric who has opposed U.S. and British operations in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
		Muqtada al-Sadr - Religious Figure/Political Figure, born 1973 (?), Fiery young anti-U.S. cleric in post-Hussein Iraq
		Though al-Sadr was quite young at the time of Saddam's fall -- he claimed to be 30 -- he came from a powerful clerical lineage: according to the Council on Foreign Relations, "His father, the Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, was the most powerful Shiite cleric in Iraq in the late 1990s.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/muqtadaalsadr.html (233 words)

	ABC News: Cleric: Iraq Vote Legitimized Occupation
		In a rare interview with a Western news organization, Muqtada al-Sadr also criticized the desecration of the Quran by interrogators and guards at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, telling The Associated Press their action was criminal.
		Muqtada al-Sadr gestures at his home in Najaf Sunday, June 5, 2005 during an interview with the Associated Press.
		Al-Sadr indirectly criticized Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, for promoting the process that led to the formation of the country's Shiite-led government.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=823453 (395 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly Region Striving for leadership
		When Muqtada Al-Sadr, the young Shia leader, was asked this week by the Lebanese As-Safir daily about what he thought of the stand taken by the various Shia forces regarding the military confrontation between Al-Mehdi army -- his militia-- and the US-led occupation forces, he declined to answer.
		The struggle for the leadership of Iraq's Shia is at the heart of Muqtada Al-Sadr's standoff with the US-led occupation forces.
		Al-Sistani broke his silence by issuing a statement in which he demanded that "all armed parties leave the city", a decision which was not received positively by Al- Sadr's followers.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/691/re4.htm (1387 words)

	What does Muqtada al-Sadr Want?
		Thursday, August 19, 2004: The Associated Press expresses confusion, both its own, and that of US government officials, about what Muqtada al-Sadr's goals are.
		Although Muqtada agreed Wednesday to disarm his militia and leave the shrine if US troops would withdraw from the city first, few expect this siege to end well or easily.
		Muqtada has given many sermons and interviews in the past 16 months outlining his goals exactly.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article6769.htm (580 words)

	individualProfile.asp?indid=1775
		As the son of a widely respected cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr himself is well regarded by certain elements of the Shiite Community, especially the younger and more radical elements, although he is lacking the formal religious education required by Shiite doctrines.
		Muqtada al-Sadr was born in approximately 1974 (though his exact date of birth is uncertain).
		The Unholy Alliance - Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Iraqi Sunnis' Opposition to Federalism
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1775 (1041 words)

	BBC NEWS 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.
		Although Mr Sadr appeared at one point to be interested in joining the political process, his supporters turned down an invitation to take part in August's national conference to select a National Council.
		The Sadr name clearly has powerful resonances; the Shia district of Baghdad, Saddam City, was renamed Sadr City after the fall of the Iraqi leader.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3131330.stm (739 words)

	No wide Shiite rally to Sadr's forces csmonitor.com
		The mosque is controlled by Sadr and his Mahdi Army, whose clashes with coalition forces in five cities have left about 100 Iraqis and 18 US and allied soldiers dead since Sunday.
		The US is now pressing for Sadr's arrest on charges he was involved in the murder of a rival cleric last April.
		SCIRI officials said in interviews with local radio on Tuesday that the US should negotiate with Sadr, rather than press the confrontation.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0407/p01s02-wome.html (1155 words)

	U.S. Soldiers Battle Al-Sadr Supporters
		Re: The cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, urged fighters in Karbala to resist U.S. troops, comparing their struggle to the Vietnam War.
		Boot Hill, I know you are going to come after me for saying this - but the stuff in this article about "deferring" the charges against Sadr until after the 6/30 handoff - Loftus has been saying this for many weeks now, that this was part of the "deal".
		Why do does the DNC and al-Sadr share talking points ?
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1134300/posts (1180 words)

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