US clash with Sadr movement
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US and Iraqi troops arrested Sadr aide Abdul Hadi Darraji in East Baghdad at midnight Iraqi time last night. The Sadr movement maintains he is just a spokesman and is not involved in militia operations. The US accuses him of running private religious courts in which people are punished for being lax with regard to implementation of Islamic law. Young cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is enormously popular in the Shiite south and a US confrontation with him could throw that region into turmoil.
Mahdi Army figures in Sadr City say they are under siege and that five commanders have been killed or captured in the past week.
A direct US conflict with Muqtada al-Sadr could throw the Shiite south into turmoil. Link
US and Iraqi troops arrested Sadr aide Abdul Hadi Darraji in East Baghdad at midnight Iraqi time last night. The Sadr movement maintains he is just a spokesman and is not involved in militia operations. The US accuses him of running private religious courts in which people are punished for being lax with regard to implementation of Islamic law. Young cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is enormously popular in the Shiite south and a US confrontation with him could throw that region into turmoil.
Mahdi Army figures in Sadr City say they are under siege and that five commanders have been killed or captured in the past week.
A direct US conflict with Muqtada al-Sadr could throw the Shiite south into turmoil. Link
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