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Thousands of Iraqi Shiite Muslims hold up Bahraini (C) and Iraqi (L) flags and an image of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr as they protest in Sadr City in eastern Baghdad on March 18, 2011 to denounce a crackdown on Shiite-led demonstrators in Bahrain, with many volunteering to join...

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Iraqi Shiite Muslims hold up the Bahraini flag and an image of Shiite radical leader Moqtada Sadr as they protest in Sadr City in eastern Baghdad on March 16, 2011, in support of the Shiite protesters in Bahrain and against the violent crackdown by the ruling Sunni Muslim dynasty in the...

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Supporters of radical Iraqi Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr hold up his image as they gather waiting his arrival in Sadr city, a suburb of the capital Baghdad late on March 8, 2011, where he held talks on what was only his second visit to the Iraqi capital since the US-led invasion...

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Radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr (C) welcomes former Iraqi premier Iyad Allawi (L) in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, south of Baghdad, on March 3, 2011, a day after Allawi said he will not chair a supervisory body that he was to head as part of a power-sharing deal.

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Iraqi supporters of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr prepare to start a survey poll on their governments policies regarding public services, on March 01, 2011 in Baghdad. Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has called on his partisans to give the government, of which his bloc is...

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Iraqi security forces stand guard at Firdus Square in Baghdad on February 28, 2011 during a press conference Hazem al-Araji, a leader of the Iraqi Shiite movement of Moqtada Sadr.

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Hazem al-Araji, a leader of the Iraqi Shiite movement of Moqtada Sadr, holds a press conference in Baghdad on February 28, 2011 to deliver a statement from Sadr who held Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki accountable for the growing popular discontent against the government.

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Radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr attends the Friday noon prayer in Najaf on Janaury 14, 2011.