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Article: After setbacks, Sadr redirects Mahdi Army.(Moqtada al-Sadr )(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- August 11, 2008
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Byline: Tom A. Peter Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Baghdad -- Moqtada al-Sadr has taken yet another step in an attempt to transform his Mahdi Army militia from a force intent on battling US soldiers into a much broader social and political network that can still hold sway in the shifting landscape of Iraq.
During Friday prayers in Sadr City, clerics read instructions from the young anti-American leader ordering his militiamen to join a new religious and cultural wing of the movement that he is calling the Momahidoun, or "those who pave the way."
The move comes just months after Mr. Sadr's movement was dealt a serious blow in ...