MOQTADA SADR GIVES FRIDAY PRAYERS
Radical Shiite Cleric and coalition fugitive Moqtada Sadr gives Friday prayers at a mosque in the small Iraqi town of Kufa on Aprile 23, 2004. Sadr threatened to launch suicide attacks if U.S. troops attack him and his forces in the holy city of Najaf. (UPI Photo/Mitch Prothero)
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