Sadr meets lieutenants to discuss new direction

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Source: Agence France-Presse

Sadr meets lieutenants to discuss new direction

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NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) - Radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr met his
top lieutenants on Sunday to discuss a new direction for his
movement after his return to public life following a mysterious
seven-month disappearance.

The meeting was designed to push Sadr's plan to create a more
positive public face for his Shiite movement, a spokesman said,
briefing reporters after the conference in Sadr's headquarters
in the Shiite holy city of Najaf.

"The Sadr movement is going to appear in a new form and with a
new style on the Iraqi scene," said the movement's spokesman
Sheikh Salah al-Obeidi.

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Sadr supporters have recently held out their hands to Sunni
tribal leaders in a gesture of reconciliation and have been
urging the government to reform Iraq's rickety public services.

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