Moqtada Sadr on whirlwind trip to Saudi Arabia to meet King. The USA next?

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Saudi king receives firebrand Iraqi cleric Sadr

MENA, Saudi Arabia - Saudi King Abdullah has held talks with radical Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr at his palace in Mina near the Muslim holy city of Makkah, while the annual Haj pilgrimage wound down on Wednesday.

“The meeting was to strengthen relations between the two countries,” the firebrand cleric told AFP on Wednesday, declining to give details.

Saudi state television broadcast footage of the meeting which took place late on Tuesday, after which the Saudi monarch appeared showing Sadr around the palace.

King Abdullah received Sadr again on Wednesday as part of a reception for dignitaries and world leaders who took part in the Haj.