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Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gives sermon during Friday prayers at Kufa shrine in the holy city of Najaf
24 Nov 2006
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Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gives a sermon during Friday prayers at the Kufa shrine in the holy city of Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, November 24, 2006. A day after seeing his Baghdad power base devastated by explosions, radical Shi'ite cleric al-Sadr called on Iraq's most prominent Sunni religious leader to tell his followers to stop killing Shi'ites.
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Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gives a sermon during Friday prayers at the Kufa shrine in the holy city of Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, November 24, 2006. A day after seeing his Baghdad power base devastated by explosions, radical Shi'ite cleric al-Sadr called on Iraq's most prominent Sunni religious leader to tell his followers to stop killing Shi'ites.


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