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IRAQ: AL-MAHDI MILITIAMEN ISSUE THREATS.

IPR Strategic Business Information Database, August, 2004

Spokesmen for Muqtada al-Sadr's Imam Al-Mahdi Army issued threats against U.S. and British forces on 5 August, Al-Jazeera television reported on the same day. Sheikh Abd al-Hadi al-Darraji said in a telephone interview from Baghdad, "The command of the Al-Mahdi Army is ready to retaliate against any action by the occupation troops." He claimed that militiamen had mobilized in a number of Iraqi cities and were prepared to fight multinational forces. Al-Darraji held Al-Najaf Governor Adnan al-Zurufi responsible for the situation in Al-Najaf, saying al-Zurufi "extended his evil hands to assist the occupation troops and escalated the situation. I believe there are agents who work with the occupation troops to destroy al-Sadr's trend and its leaders through attempts, the...

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