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The Most Powerful Iraqi: Who is Muqtada al-Sadr?

By Patrick Cockburn, CounterPunch. Posted February 16, 2007.


The Shia cleric al-Sadr draws his influence from channeling the sentiments of the millions of Shia poor, preaching a mixture of militancy against Sunnis and skepticism against Shia elites.
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Patrick Cockburn is the author of 'The Occupation: War, resistance and daily life in Iraq', a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award for best non-fiction book of 2006.

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