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Where in the world is Moqtada al-Sadr? He hasn't been seen in public in several weeks, and he has not kept up his usual practice of leading Friday prayers at the Great Mosque in Kufa. Now U.S. officials are claiming the firebrand anti-American cleric fled to Iran two or three weeks ago, along with several commanders of his dreaded Mahdi Army militia. But senior Sadr officials in Baghdad have dismissed those claims as propaganda, and maintain he is still in his Najaf headquarters...
...majority of EFP attacks, the officials said, came from "rogue" elements of Moqtada Sadr's Mahdi Army. The officials would not go further than that to associate the leader of the powerful Shi'a militia to Iran. This is the same line the U.S. walks when attributing militia violence and death squad murders to the Mahdi Army. Sadr is the highest-profile - and likely the most effective single opponent - of the American presence in Iraq. But he is also a power broker in Iraq's government and a key supporter of the Iraqi prime minister. It is therefore politically tricky...
...Firas al-Saedi, a senior Dawa leader. "But the real question is: 'Why are the Arab states allowing terrorists to enter Iraq through their borders, and why are they financing them?'" That sentiment was echoed by parliamentarian Falah Shansal, from the Shi'a bloc of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. "There are groups in Saudi Arabia who finance terrorism in Iraq," he said. "Why are the Americans not talking about this...
...Most of the 60 people Mohammed transported that day were soaking wet, but usually those riding in the back of his ambulance are burned and bleeding from wounds inflicted by car bombs. On Thanksgiving Day, he was among the responders who rushed to Sadr City, where a series of blasts killed roughly 200 people. "It was horrible," Mohammed says, describing a scene of broken bodies strewn over scorched rubble. "There were hundreds of people turned into pieces...
...been injured in the attack. He loaded them into his ambulance, along with at least one body and several body fragments he gathered up as well. He hoped, of course, he could save each of them - they were, after all, his neighbors; Mohammed and his family live in Sadr City. But at the end of the day five of the family were dead...