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Iraq's Sadr calls for followers to sign blood pact against occupiers 2 days ago KUFA, Iraq (AFP) Anti-US Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr on Friday called on his followers to "sign with their blood" a pledge to resist occupying forces in Iraq and other Muslim countries. Sadr urged "believers to sign with their blood an oath of allegiance to the imam Mahdi," in a statement read during Friday prayers ...
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Iran continues to train Shia terror groups for attacks in Iraq
The Long War Journal —
... The heavy casualties and defeat in Baghdad and the South suffered by the Mahdi Army have forced Muqtada al Sadr to change his tactics and disband the Mahdi Army in favor of a small, secretive fighting force. This group is tasked with taking part "in resistance in all the Muslim countries and especially Iraq, militarily and ideologically, to the occupiers, colonizers and secular Western thought," a senior Sadr cleric said during this Friday's prayers. ...
Al-Sadr Calls for Blood Pledge of Holy Struggle Against Occupation; Seniora to Baghdad
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... Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr has called upon Iraqis to sign a personal pledge in blood of struggle (jihad) against the foreign military occupation of Iraq. Although he urges them to oppose it "militarily and culturally," he currently has a ceasefire with the US, and this pledge campaign does not appear to threaten it. It seems to me that the pledges are a way for Muqtada to continue to burnish his anti-imperialist credentials even though he has actually made a deal with Washington. The campaign does, however, demonstrate that for the US to try to maintain long-term bases ...
US sanctions Iranian general for aiding Iraqi terror groups
The Long War Journal —
... The heavy casualties and defeat in Baghdad and the South suffered by the Mahdi Army have forced Muqtada al Sadr to change his tactics and disband the Mahdi Army in favor of a small, secretive fighting force. This group is tasked with taking part "in resistance in all the Muslim countries and especially Iraq, militarily and ideologically, to the occupiers, colonizers and secular Western thought," a senior Sadr cleric said on Aug. 15. ...
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