An Attempt To Kill Iraqi Radical Cleric Al-Sadr Fails

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http://www.nysun.com/article/31656

By THOMAS WAGNER - Associated Press
April 26, 2006

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - A bomb hidden in a minibus exploded near the offices of an anti-American cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, in eastern Baghdad yesterday, killing two Iraqi civilians and wounding three, police said. snip

The minibus had just pulled to the side of the street in a market, about 400 yards from Mr. al-Sadr's offices, witness Naim Madkour, 36, a perfume shop owner, said. It had been picking up passengers, but he couldn't see if it had any inside at the time of the blast.

One man fled from the minibus just before it blew up, Mr. Madkour said. Iraqis often ride around the capital by paying small fees to privately owned minibuses. The explosion at 11:45 a.m. in mostly Shiite Sadr City damaged nearby storefronts, which were closed, but there were few people in the street because the market opens in the evening. The bomb, hidden in a plastic bag, killed two Iraqi civilians and wounded three, police Lieutenant Ahmed Mohammed said.

Mr. al-Sadr controls the Mahdi Army that has been blamed for a role in a wave of sectarian kidnappings and killings in Baghdad and other cities in the last few months. He has refused to disband the group unless other militias are abolished and the army and police prove capable of protecting Shiites from Sunni extremists.

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1. Well we've got one alive, breathing, and pissed off as Sadr as opposed

to one dead martyr al Sadr.

I don't know which is worse.

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2. But I bet his hearing isn't so good these days n/t