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Muqtada rides the tiger
General David Petraeus and US envoy Ryan Crocker are not alone as they go through their paces before the US Congress. There's a ghostly figure beside them, that of "hot-headed", "radical cleric" Muqtada al-Sadr, who has made a mockery of their plans for a pacified Iraq. British author and journalist Patrick Cockburn, in a book out this week, sheds new light on Muqtada, the canny, cautious, strategically savvy political leader who has called for a million-strong march in Baghdad this week. (Apr 9, '08)
General David Petraeus and US envoy Ryan Crocker are not alone as they go through their paces before the US Congress. There's a ghostly figure beside them, that of "hot-headed", "radical cleric" Muqtada al-Sadr, who has made a mockery of their plans for a pacified Iraq. British author and journalist Patrick Cockburn, in a book out this week, sheds new light on Muqtada, the canny, cautious, strategically savvy political leader who has called for a million-strong march in Baghdad this week. (Apr 9, '08)
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