...the White House.'" (Sadr City estimated pop.: 2 million is a bastion of anti-Americanism, where the radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his militia, the Mahdi Army, hold sway. Few Americans would dare visit the neighborhood without a massive military...
...needed two minutes to try and sentence a defendant to death." A lawmaker for the movement loyal to anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr hailed the verdicts. "This day is the day of examination and punishment," Fawzi Akram told AP Television News. "In the...
...is a holy shrine for Shiite Muslims. They included tribal leaders, students and some followers of anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The protesters carried banners including one that read: «The pact aims to put Iraq under U.S. tutelage.» They also...
...growth of the Awakening Councils, the Sunni militants who decided to back the United States; militant Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's call for his militia to cease fire; improvements in the Iraqi security forces; and the central government's offensives against...
...â led to their rejection by the local population, which then looked to the coalition for support. At the same time, Muqtada al Sadr announced a freeze on violence by his Mahdi army militia. These factors combined to change considerably the security dynamic...
...and full sovereignty of Iraq,â Fawzi Akram Tarzi, a member of parliament from the Sadrist bloc of Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr, told Aswat al-Iraq. âWe would contest the voting over the security pact with the United States through the federal court on the...
...by the government's Shiite, Kurdish and Sunni Arab blocs but opposed by the 30 lawmakers loyal to anti-American Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr as well as smaller groups. A deadly rocket attack on the U.S.-protected Green Zone early yesterday bore the hallmarks...
...employees and wounding 15 others, according to U.N. and military officials. The attack comes as followers of anti-U.S. Muqtada al-Sadr hoisted black flags on houses, mosques and Sadrist offices in their Baghdad stronghold to protest a U.S.-Iraqi security pact...
...over hastly retiring the troops from Iraq after the terrorist bombs in Madrid and the irresponsable attempt of killing Al Sadr (the spanish troops were located in Najaf and were put in a position of being involved in a fight they had nothing with) that's a...
...Iraq's leader since March, when he launched a military offensive in Basra against Shiite militias loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Al-Maliki put his fingerprints all over the U.S. security agreement, condemning early drafts as unsatisfactory to telegraph...