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Muqtada Al-Sadr Threatens Open War against the Iraqi Government

The head of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada Al-Sadr, has issued a communiqué in which he threatens the Iraqi government with "open war until liberation" if the U.S. and Iraqi forces continue their military operations against his people in Baghdad and Basra. Al-Sadr accuses the Iraqi government of ungratefulness, and of targeting the Sadrist movement despite the fact that it is flesh of its flesh.

Source: www.aswataliraq.info, April 19, 2008

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