As the people of Sadr City count the cost of another night of violence, mosques are reportedly broadcasting a cleric's threat of "open war." Locals say loudspeakers have relayed what Moqtada al-Sadr says is his "last warning" to Iraq's government. The US military says overnight clashes in t...
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A senior ally of the radical Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al- Sadr has been assassinated. Riyad al-Nouri was responsible for running al-Sadr's office and is reported to be a relative of the cleric. He was returning from Friday prayers when he was gunned down near his home in Najaf. The h...
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Baghdad, Iraq - The Al-Amel neighborhood has been wracked with as much violence and unrest as Baghdads roughest neighborhoods. The Sadr office in Al-Amel has been an important source of stability and security for many residents of Al-Amel. As weve reported previously, the Sadr Movement, which is...
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"A rare look at life inside Iraq's most notorious slum. Sadr City, Baghdad, has become a breeding ground for radicalism. Many of its three million citizens depend on Muqtada al-Sadr for support. "We are a republic of widows and orphans", one school teacher explains. "The mosques don't have enoug...
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Iraq's firebrand Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada Sadr, who made his first appearance in Iraq on Friday after months in hiding, reiterated his call for US troops to withdraw from Iraq, as well as calling on his own militia to refrain from clashes. Shots of Iraqi Muslim worshippers chanting slogans, S...
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Iraqi and U.S. forces have tightened their grip on Sadr City -the Baghdad suburb once held by insurgents. Since a ceasefire last month with Muqtada Al Sadr's Mehdi Army, they have rounded-up weapons and fighters.
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Footage of a Multi-National Division Baghdad aerial weapons team that killed three criminals and destroyed a rocket rail being used by criminals to launch indirect-fire attacks in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, May 4. An aerial weapons team conducting surveillance identified a group of crim...
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"Walls everywhere, children filled with hatred, graveyards and more graveyards. Journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad offers an outstanding report from the streets of Baghdad. He asks how his home town is after 5 years of occupation? He finds a city devastated in every way. At an orphanage in Sadr City...
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Thousands of Shiite Iraqi mourners commemorated the seventh anniversary of the passing of Shiite cleric Mohammad Sadiq al-Sadr. Shots of Shiite mourners holding Iraqi flags, gathering for commemoration, marching, chanting slogans, holding Shiite clerics pictures 00:00-00:18 Shots of Mohammad al-...
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