U.S. and Iraqi forces arrested top aides to anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in pre-dawn raids Thursday, according to Sadr officials who called the move a provocation designed to trigger a full-blown battle between the groups. “It is obvious they want to draw the Sadr movement into a military confrontation,” said Abdul Razzak al-Nedawi, a leader of the Sadr movement in Diwaniyah, south of Baghdad. “But we are trying our best to avoid such confrontation and find alternative ways to armed confrontation.” Full Story
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