The making of a hero
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1321352,00.html
Moqtada al-Sadr is a dangerous theocrat - but his appeal for Iraqis is
that he calls for free elections
Naomi Klein
Thursday October 7, 2004
The Guardian
My first run-in with Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi army came on March 31 in
Baghdad. The US occupation chief Paul Bremer had just sent armed men
to shut down the young cleric's newspaper, al-Hawza, on the grounds
that articles comparing Bremer to Saddam Hussein incited violence
against Americans. Sadr responded by calling for his supporters to
protest outside the gates of the Green Zone, demanding al-Hawza's
reopening.
Naomi Klein
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Sadr
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