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To: steve harris who wrote (188152)	5/8/2004 12:34:19 PM
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IRAQI REACTION: Clerics say retaliation is necessary May 8, 2004 BY SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI ASSOCIATED PRESS KUFA, Iraq -- A defiant Muqtada al-Sadr delivered prayers at a mosque Friday, denouncing U.S. abuse of Iraqi prisoners, while the radical Shi'ite cleric's militiamen battled U.S. troops in two cities. The scandal over the mistreatment of prisoners spilled into the confrontation, as a sheik loyal to the cleric offered rewards for capturing coalition troops and said anyone who seizes a female British soldier could keep her as a slave. "What sort of freedom and democracy can we expect from you, when you take such joy in torturing Iraqi prisoners?" al-Sadr told thousands of worshippers at Kufa's main mosque in reference to the U.S. troops. Al-Sadr dismissed apologies from President George W. Bush over the abuse at Abu Ghraib. "I tell this to Bush," al-Sadr said. "Your statements are not enough. They must be punished in kind," he said, referring to the guards. During a sermon in Basra, Sheik Abdul-Sattar al-Bahadli displayed documents and photos he said showed three Iraqi women being raped at British-run prisons in Iraq and called for jihad, or holy war, against British troops in the southern city. Al-Bahadli said $350 would be given to anyone who captures a British soldier and offered $150 for killing one. "Any Iraqi who takes a female soldier can keep her as a slave or gift to himself," he said. Al-Sadr traveled from his hometown of Najaf to Kufa -- 6 miles away -- to lead Friday prayers, despite a crackdown on his militia by U.S. troops in and around Najaf and other southern cities. U.S. commanders suggested they were refraining from moving against al-Sadr on the Islamic day of prayers, as they have the past three Fridays. Elsewhere in Iraq on Friday: In Karbala, two militiamen and two civilians were killed in fighting. In Najaf, clashes killed at least 12 al-Sadr gunmen, said Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt. In Mosul, a roadside bomb went off by a passing Iraqi police patrol Friday, killing four policemen. South of Baghdad, gunmen killed two journalists from state-run Polish television as they drove by. freep.com