Iraq's Sadr calls million-strong march against U.S. (Reuters)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Thu, 04/03/2008 - 6:25am

A man searches for a missing relative near the rubble of a house after an air strike in Basra, 340 miles south of Baghdad, April 3, 2008.<br /><br />(Atef Hassan/Reuters)Reuters - Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on Thursday for a million-strong demonstration against U.S.

"occupation," a potentially destabilizing show of force after his followers battled U.S. and government troops.




 

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