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#Muqtada_al-Sadr: We will “shake the ground” under #ISIS
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Powerful Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr vowed late Wednesday to “shake the ground” under the feet of advancing jihadi militants, a week after thousands of his partisans held a military parade in #Baghdad. Sadr, whose movement battled US forces in #Iraq, also voiced opposition to American military advisers meeting with Iraqi commanders combating an offensive that has overrun swathes of five provinces, killed more than 1,100 people, displaced hundreds of thousands and threatens to tear the country apart — ideologically and geographically. read more

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Iraqi cleric #Muqtada_al-Sadr announced exit from political scene
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A picture taken on April 26, 2012 shows Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr speaking during a press conference in the northern Iraqi Kurdish city of Arbil during a visit to #Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region. (Photo: AFP - Safin Hamed)

Powerful Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, leader of a major political movement and a key figure in post-Saddam Iraq, has announced his exit from politics two months before elections. The decision, if confirmed as permanent, brings to a close a political career that began with his fierce opposition to the US military presence in Iraq, and has spanned more than a decade. read (...)

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