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Iraq
Mookie's supporters rally in Iraq
2010-10-09
BAGHDAD - Hundreds of followers of anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr took to the streets in Iraq on Friday to show support for their leaderÂ’s decision to nominate Nuri al-Maliki as prime minister for a second term.

Maliki won the nomination with support from SadrÂ’s movement which previously opposed a second term for the incumbent. Once SadrÂ’s foe, Maliki sent troops to crush SadrÂ’s Mehdi Army militia in 2008.
Mookie apparently is capable of playing a much deeper game than he previously demonstrated ...
More than a thousand Sadr supporters demonstrated in IraqÂ’s southern city of Basra on Friday, while in the holy city of Kerbala, hundreds more took to the streets to push for the speedy formation of a government.

In Baghdad’s Sadr City — the Shia cleric’s stronghold in the capital — hundreds rallied after Friday prayers in support of their leader. All the rallies were peaceful and orderly.

“The leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, made his decision for us,” Hassan Abdul-Hussain, a 36-year-old government employee, told Reuters. “We obey it fully and without controversy because we all know he looks out for Iraq and Iraqis.”
Posted by:Steve White

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