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May 19, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36436-2004May18.html

Top Shiite Cleric Rebuffs Rival's Call to Arms

(Washington Post) - Iraq's supreme Shiite religious leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, demanded Tuesday that all armed forces leave the holy city of Najaf and called on fellow Shiites not to join in a bloody uprising there against U.S. forces. It was his first public effort to end a weeks-old rebellion mounted by the radical cleric Moqtada Sadr.

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