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    Muqtada al-Sadr (Arabic: مقتدى الصدر, romanized: Muqtadā aṣ-Ṣadr; born 4 August 1974) is an Iraqi Shia Muslim cleric, politician and militia leader. He...
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    التيار الصدري al-Tayyār al-Sadrī) is an Iraqi Shi'a Islamic national movement[citation needed] and political party, led by Muqtada al-Sadr. The Sadrist...
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    Mahdi Army (redirect from Al-Mahdi Army)
    Army (Arabic: جيش المهدي, romanized: Jaysh al-Mahdi) was an Iraqi Shia militia created by Muqtada al-Sadr in June 2003 and disbanded in 2008. The Mahdi...
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    active but in smaller scale. Muqtada al-Sadr, son of an anti-Saddam activist Muhammad-Sadiq al-Sadr who, after his newspaper al-Hamza was shut down by Coalition...
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    Revolution City (Saddam City or Al-Thawraa) was officially renamed to Sadr City in memory of him. al-Sadr's son, Muqtada al-Sadr, is currently the leader of...
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    He was the father-in-law to Muqtada al-Sadr, a cousin of Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr and Musa al-Sadr. His father Haydar al-Sadr was a well-respected high-ranking...
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    Musa Sadr al-Din al-Sadr (Arabic: موسى صدر الدین الصدر; Persian: موسی صدرالدین صدر‎‎; 4 June 1928 – disappeared 31 August 1978) was a Lebanese-Iranian...
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    banning of a newspaper published by Muqtada Al-Sadr's Sadrist Movement. The most intense periods of fighting in Sadr City occurred during the first uprising...
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    Execution of Saddam Hussein (category Al-Kadhimayn)
    Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, and his subsequent fall through the trap door of the gallows. Saddam's body was returned to his birthplace of Al-Awja, near...
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    Since August 2007, a unilateral ceasefire was in place, imposed by Muqtada al-Sadr on his militia, the Mahdi Army. However raids were continuing on so-called...
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  • Husayn al-Sadr (Arabic: حسين الصدر), is an Iraqi Grand Ayatollah who is widely seen as a highly respected and unifying figure that has been called upon...
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  • Iraq, al-Hakim's life was in danger because of his work to encourage Shiite resistance to Saddam Hussein and from a rivalry with Muqtada al-Sadr, the son...
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    them. Muqtada al-Sadr called the departure the first expulsion of US-led coalition forces from an Iraqi urban center. A message from al-Sadr's office...
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  • Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr is said to have been the ideological father of the Islamic Dawa Party. Jaafar al-Sadr is the brother-in-law of Muqtada al-Sadr, who married...
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  • live al-Sadr". The mob killed Al-Rufaye with bayonets and knives; al-Khoei, who was critically injured by this time, was killed later. Muqtada al-Sadr was...
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  • scholar Ismail Sadr, (dies 1919), son of Sadr-ed-Deen bin Saleh Mohammad Mohammad-Sadeq Sadr (1943–1999) Muqtada al-Sadr, (born 1973), son of Sadr Mohammad...
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  • Abu Deraa (redirect from Ismail al-Lami)
    [better source needed] Abu Deraa operated out of Sadr City, which is also the stronghold of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militia, the Mahdi Army. He has gained...
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    United States and Iraqi forces on one side and the Mahdi Army led by Muqtada al-Sadr on the other in the Iraqi city of Najaf in August 2004. On 31 July...
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    with Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim if Ayatollah al-Haeri had ordered it. Recently, Muqtada al-Sadr and Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim signed a pact to end all...
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    regions, such as the "Sunni Triangle". Muqtada al-Sadr, the leader of a large anti-American faction in Baghdad's Sadr City, issued a fatwa allowing his followers...
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  • Muqtada al-Sadr called for snap elections, but was unsuccessful, which led to the pro-Iran State of Law Coalition forming a government. Muqtada al-Sadr...
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    Sayyid Mohammed Hassan al-Sadr (Arabic: السيد محمد حسن الصدر;‎ 7 January 1882 – 3 April 1956) was an Iraqi Shi'ite statesman. He served as Prime Minister...
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  • Sheikh Abdul-Satar al-Bahadli is a senior Iraqi Shia cleric and confederate of Muqtada al-Sadr. On 7 May 2004, responding to pictures of the abuse of...
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  • Al-Sadr Online was the official website of the High Board for Media of Al-Sadr's Office. The High Board is the media organization of Muqtada Al-Sadr, a...
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    such as the Islamic Dawa Party of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and the Sadrist Movement of Muqtada al-Sadr. Though a minority of the world Muslim community...
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    Sadr City (Arabic: مدينة الصدر, romanized: Madīnat aṣ-Ṣadr), formerly known as Al-Thawra (Arabic: الثورة, romanized: aṯ-Ṯawra) and Saddam City (Arabic:...
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    the support of two Shiite blocs, that of Muqtada al-Sadr and the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, that his Dawa party has often been...
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  • Parliament declared Eid al-Ghadir to be an official public holiday with the encouragement of the Sadrist Leader, Muqtada al-Sadr. According to the narrations...
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  • Sheikh Mithal al-Hasnawi (Arabic: مثال الحسناوي) was a representative of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Karbala, Iraq, before being captured by US...
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  • Islamic Iraqi Council (al-Majlis al-alalith-thaura l-islamiyya fil-Iraq) – led by Ammar al-Hakim Sadrist Movement – led by Muqtada al-Sadr Islamic Dawa Party...
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