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Article: Shiite cleric suspending activities of Mahdi Army

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BAGHDAD -- Firebrand Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced Wednesday that he's temporarily suspending the activities of his feared Mahdi Army militia so that the organization can be restructured.

The announcement, a day after Mahdi Army members were accused of inciting clashes in Karbala that killed at least 52 people, seemed to be a startling admission that the militia, which twice fought brutal uprisings against U.S. troops and has been blamed for thousands of death-squad killings, was no longer under Sadr's control.

American officials in Baghdad and Washington greeted word of the

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