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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By New York Times News Service / The Bulletin
August 16, 2008
BAGHDAD — At Friday Prayer, the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on followers to pledge in blood their loyalty to the Shiite saint, and to affirm their commitment to driving U.S. troops out of Iraq. Sadr named his Mahdi Army militia after the saint.
The call for a blood pledge was....