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To: one_less who wrote (7669)	7/19/2005 6:51:44 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7689

You're right. Al Sadr has dropped completely out of sight. I hope you're wrong about the rest, though.

To: one_less who wrote (7669)	7/20/2005 5:57:15 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7689

Iraqi cleric Sadr urges restraint after deadly attacks 18 Jul 2005 22:39:58 GMT Source: Reuters LONDON, July 18 (Reuters) - Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who led two bloody uprisings against U.S. troops, has appealed for calm after a wave of suicide bombings killed scores of people across Iraq. In an interview with BBC television broadcast on Monday, the cleric said the Iraqi people had the right to fight U.S.-led forces, but urged them to show restraint. "I believe America does not want confrontation, so I call on the Iraqi people to exercise restraint and not get enmeshed in the plans of the West or the plans of the occupation that wants to provoke them," Sadr said. A wave of suicide bombings has caused devastation across Iraq since the Shi'ite- and Kurdish-led government took power in April. A truck bomb killed at least 98 people south of Baghdad on Saturday in the second most deadly single bombing since the war began in 2003. Sadr said the Iraqi army and police should "not be provoked into confrontation with them (the Iraqi people) or the occupying forces". However, in the same interview with the BBC's "Newsnight" programme, the cleric appeared to defend armed attacks against the U.S.-led forces in Iraq. "Resistance is legitimate at all levels, be it religious, intellectual and so on," Sadr said. "The first person who would acknowledge this is the so-called American President (George W.) Bush who said 'if my country is occupied, I will fight'." Al-Sadr blamed the latest violence on the presence of U.S. troops. "The occupation itself is a problem, Iraq not being independent is the problem," he told the BBC. "The other problems stem from that. From sectarianism to civil war, the entire American presence causes this." Sadr has recently called for peaceful resistance in Iraq after leading his militia in two armed revolts in 2004.