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Article: Iraq's Mahdi Army militia to resume activities unless Sadr renewsceasefire
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- February 20, 2008
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Iraq's Mahdi Army militia to resume activities unless Sadr
renewsceasefire
BAGHDAD, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- An aide to Iraqi radical Shiite
cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said on Wednesday that Mahdi Army militia
would resume its activities unless Sadr extend a six-month
ceasefire.
"The ceasefire will end automatically by Saturday and Mahdi Army
would resume its activities unless Sayid Muqtada al-Sadr issue a
statement to renew the ceasefire," Shiek Salah al-Obeidi, spokesman
for Sadr, told reporters in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, some 160
km south of Baghdad.
"The Mahdi Army is committed to the current ...