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Article: Sadr the agitator: like father, like son.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- April 27, 2004
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Byline: Dan Murphy Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
KUFA, IRAQ -- Sadr enters the mosque at Kufa where he's led Friday prayers for nearly a year denouncing the authorities and warning of an "imperialist" conspiracy against Iraq's majority Shiites.
The thousands fill the vast open courtyard, chanting the name of their hero when he strides through the gate, and they take up his call during the sermon. "No, no to America! No, no to Israel! No, no to imperialism!" In Baghdad, the authorities worry about how to handle this militant cleric, his rising profile and his willingness to flex the street muscle he's built up in Iraq's slums.
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