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I don't know how much power al-Sadr has.

In a statement issued by his office, al-Sadr called for peaceful celebrations and urged people not to attack Sunnis.

Al - Sadr supporters were quick to respond that the prime minister has no constitutional power to interfere with elections .

CNN Anchor: Well after nearly a week of vicious fighting between Iraqi forces and Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi army, a welcome cease-fire.

It was launched by a Shiite-dominated government out to break the local control of militias led by Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

A party loyal to a Shia cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, said it would support the incumbent prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, in his bid to stay on.

Bullet holes mark a door of a small shop in Sadr City, the fiefdom of the Madhi Army militia, loyal to Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

Both parties are determined to keep from power the populists loyal to a fiery nationalist cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr.

This was the first time the prime minister singled out al-Sadr's Mahdi Army.

The attack targeted Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr and occurred as the faithful were leaving after Friday prayers.

He added that militants loyal to cleric Moqtada al-Sadr now acknowledge that they cannot be permitted to act outside of the government.

Sadr's movement had called on the government to stop random raids against al-Sadr's followers and to open roads that lead to the city.

However, in the cabinet crisis in Iraq, al-Sadr in Iran to support Maliki eventually persuaded to continue as prime minister.

A six-month ceasefire declared by Muqtada al-Sadr, the powerful radical cleric, has helped to reduce violence.

Iraqi anti-US Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr threatened that if the continued presence of U. S. troops, he will return to armed resistance.

Once again Shia slum-dwellers in Baghdad and the south voted in numbers for Muqtada al-Sadr, a populist cleric.

According to reports, this is the end of exile, al-Sadr returned to Iraq the first time since the publication of the speech.

This is not the first time al-Sadr to issue such a voice.

Lawmakers loyal to anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have announced that they are withdrawing from the Shiite bloc in parliament.

Once fierce rivals Allawi and Moqtada al-Sadr met in Damascus in mid-August 2010 for negotiations on resolving the election dispute.

An aide to cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, Sheikh Salah al-Obeidi, says the cease-fire in eastern Baghdad's Sadr City will go into effect on Sunday.

But radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, is threatening to torpedo the vote.

Reed says he also doubts whether al-Sadr's order will have a lasting impact.

Mr. Maliki, a Shia, took office in 2006 with al-Sadr's support.

Al-Sadr has great sway there, and it's thought that weapon smugglers from Iran do too.

But half the militiamen loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraq's fiercest Shia cleric, are thought to have quietly returned. They lie in wait

Al-Sadr to Let Supporters Rejoin Iraq's Government