Al-Sadr blasts Baghdad security plan in his first word after reports of his flight
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The leader of Iraq’s biggest Shiite militia complained Sunday that bombs “continue to explode” in Baghdad and that US-led security crackdown is doomed to fail, adding that Iraqi forces should operate independently of the US “occupiers”.
Many Shiites believe that bombings have continued because the Shiite-led government bowed to American pressure and convinced radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to take his Mahdi Army fighters off the streets. (AP)
