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...would be easy to dismiss Muqtada al-Sadr as little more than a street punk. That may be a mistake when dealing with a man who appears to have established himself as the de facto ruler of a huge chunk of Baghdad - the Shiite ghetto once known as Saddam City, now renamed Sadr City in honor of Muqtada's uncle, the legendary martyred anti-Saddam rebel cleric Muhammad Bakir al Sadr. Sadr City could be described as the Compton of Iraq, but its 2 million residents make up 8 percent of Iraq's entire population. A substantial domain, then...
...Iran faction stirring up trouble. But it quickly emerged that Muqtada spelt trouble even for the leading Iran-backed Iraqi Shiite group, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. Muqtada - whose supporters have crowned him the heir to the leadership mantle of his father, Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr who inherited it from the martyred Muhammed Bakir al-Sadr before being martyred himself - believes he has a claim to national leadership...
...were chanted by thousands of worshipers making the pilgrimage to Karbala last week. He denies being too young to assume spiritual authority, explaining that his father became just such an authority - or mujtahid - at the age of 25, while another important Shiite scholar and relative, Muhammed Bakir al-Sadr attained that rank at 22. Says Muqtada, "I am not a mujtahid, but I am not far from becoming...
...military, of one of the most senior marjah, Ayatollah Mohammed Sayeed al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and its military wing, the Badr corps. "The Badr corps have ten or twelve thousand supporters while three quarters of Iraq are soldiers of Sadr. The Iraqi people don't follow any marjah but my father. And Haeri is important now, because my father deputized...
...Last Saturday's mourners were linked by loss. The names of their relatives were listed in a file of 18 young men executed May 13, 2001, according to family members. The dead were friends who worshipped together at a mosque in East Baghdad and followed the teachings of Al Sadr, an anti-Saddam cleric assassinated in 1999. None were said to be members of banned organizations. They were arrested between May and July...