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Sadr sez US, al-Qaeda in cahoots for attack on Sadr City
Radical Iraqi cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, has accused both the terrorists of the al-Qaeda network and the US military of responsibility for the attacks in Baghdad's Sadr City neighbourhood late Sunday, in which 48 people died. During a heated press conference in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, the young imam issued a warning to those who had targeted his followers. "We consider the attack was carried out by groups of Takfir [a derogatory term used to describe terrorists literally meaning 'those who have put themselves outside Islam'] thanks to the cover of American spy aircraft" he said.Al-Sadr was referring to three seemingly coordinated explosions that took place towards dusk in the rundown Sadr city district, a stronghold of Moqtada al-Sadr and his al-Mahdi militia. Two car bombs went off in a market while a third blew up almost simultaneously at another. A fourth car bomb was discovered and difused by police at another market. Posted by: Dan Darling 2006-03-14 |
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