al-sadr

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2011/01/08/exp.nr.iraq.radical.cleric.cnn -- Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, the anti-American political figure who returned to Iraq this week from self-imposed exile, told tens of thousands of his followers Saturday to "resist" and "disturb" the United...

BAGHDAD – A once-feared Shiite militia that was crippled two years ago by defections and a U.S.-Iraqi crackdown has quietly started to regroup, adding street muscle to the Shiite party that emerged strongest from Iraq's parliamentary elections. The revival of the Mahdi Army, loyal to radical...