Al-Sadr official: Religious leaders want militia intact

April 8, 2008 – 1:17 am

Iraq’s top Shiite religious leaders have told anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr not to disband his Mehdi Army, an al-Sadr spokesman said amid fresh fighting in the militia’s Baghdad strongholds.


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