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Article: IRAQ - Aug 11 - After Setbacks, Sadr Redirects Mahdi Army.(Muqtada al-Sadr)
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- APS Diplomat Recorder
- Article date:
- August 16, 2008
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Muqtada 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 Aug 15 prayers in Sadr City, theologians 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 springtime battles with both American and Iraqi forces in Baghdad and Basra that ended when Sadr called ...
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