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Moqtada al-Sadr/Definition

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Iraqi Shi'a with religious credentials but far more of a political activist; headed a resistance force against U.S. forces, then forming a National Assembly (Iraq) bloc and becoming part of the government of Nouri al-Maliki; heads the Mahdi Army militia

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