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Lebanon's large Shiite population,
especially the influential Iranian-born cleric Musa al-Sadr, who proved
helpful to many of the Iranian oppositionists. Both Sadr's network ... fall of the shah. In Lebanon, Chamran and the LMI worked
closely with Sadr, whom LMI leaders knew from his student days in
Tehran, and who was the uncle ... group's leaders in exile.
Sadr also relied on the Palestinians for training his newly formed Amal
militia. His concern wasn't fighting Israel but rather protecting
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kidnapping and
murder of a luminary of the Shiite religious class, Imam Musa al-
Sadr, and two of his companions.
In the summer of 1978, Sadr, the leader of Lebanon ... Gadhafi and 16 of
his aides in the matter of kidnapping Imam Musa al-Sadr.
It was inevitable that the tumult in Libya would call up yet again the
mystery ... Sadr's disappearance. The vanished imam, one rumor has
it, is alive and well, detained in a Libyan prison, now 83 years of age.
But operatives of the Libyan regime
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also take the more controversial step of
encouraging the Shia militant cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's powerful
Mandi Army to join the fight. During the U.S. occupation of
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Iraq, Sadr famously ordered his militia to fight U.S. troops, and
he gained a reputation for recklessness as a political and military
leader. Tehran has repeatedly intervened on Maliki ... erratic cleric's militia. But Tehran now seems to have
changed its mind about Sadr, at least for the duration of the
current crisis. After a recent trip to Iran
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line of fire once the troops
withdraw. Last month the fiery cleric Moqtada al-Sadr issued a blunt
statement about American staff working at the U.S. Embassy in
Baghdad after ... them are occupiers, and it
is a must to fight them after the deadline," Sadr wrote. That is no idle
threat, given the Mandi Army's bloody history of attacks ... against the
U.S. military.
Sadr and his supporters could also increase sectarian tensions;
recently they lauded Maliki's arrests of alleged Baathists. "If we
forgive these killers, then
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line of fire once the troops
withdraw. Last month the fiery cleric Moqtada al-Sadr issued a blunt
statement about American staff working at the U.S. Embassy in
Baghdad after ... them are occupiers, and it
is a must to fight them after the deadline," Sadr wrote. That is no idle
threat, given the Mandi Army's bloody history of attacks ... against the
U.S. military.
Sadr and his supporters could also increase sectarian tensions;
recently they lauded Maliki's arrests of alleged Baathists. "If we
forgive these killers, then
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another Iranian-backed militia—the Mandi Army, headed by the populist
cleric Moqtada al-Sadr—began confronting the Americans early. In
August, 2004, after the Americans launched a particularly bloody ... fallen
fighter's name and address. Many of them were marked "Tehran."
Suleimani found Sadr unpredictable and difficult to manage, so the Quds
Force began to organize other militias that ... Iraqi Army were pressing an offensive against the Mandi Army—Moqtada
al-Sadr's Shiite militia—and, in retribution, the militia was bombarding the
Green Zone regularly. Suleimani, who sensed
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next door.
Iraq: Two months before legislative polls, Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr—the leader of a powerful political constituency—
announced his withdrawal from political life. Sadr cited "Islamic ... political arena. His move coincided with the resignation of various other Sadrist
MPs. Sadr's bloc currently holds six cabinet posts and over 10% of the 325-member parliament ... Maliki and his Shiite Fadhila party—just before the
elections. Indeed, if the Sadr bloc loses any votes in April, they are likely to go to Fadhila. Meanwhile Iraq continues
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backing, by the forces of Shiite Prime Minister
Nouri al-Maliki. They crushed the Sadr militias from Basra to Sadr
City.
Al-Qaeda decimated. A Shiite prime minister taking ... withdrawal was meant to be
renegotiated. And all major parties but one (the Sadr faction) had an
interest in some residual stabilizing U.S. force, like the postwar
deployments in Japan ... balance of power is held by the relatively small
(12 percent) Iranian-client Sadr faction.
The second failure was the SOFA itself. U.S. commanders
recommended nearly 20,000 troops, considerably
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forces withdraw by year's end. To this end, Iraqi
Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr, whose moves tend to be coordinated
with Iran, organized a large demonstration in eastern Baghdad ... April 9 where his followers demanded the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
Al-Sadr said in a statement, "If the Americans don't leave Iraq, we
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