Sadr condemns attacks - Thats his new job. Official attack condemner

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Baghdad - Moqtada al-Sadr, the Shi'ite cleric whose Mehdi Army is among pro-government militias accused by critics of attacks on minority Sunnis, condemned on Wednesday such violence and called for peace so as not to "destroy Iraq".

"I do not accept any assaults on the Iraqi people nor any forced displacements nor any kidnappings.

These are all unacceptable," Sadr said in forcefully conciliatory remarks in a rare interview on Iraqiya state television on Wednesday.

Sadr, who has supporters in Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki's national unity coalition, was responding to charges by Sunni Arabs, police and other officials that his militia was behind some recent sectarian attacks in Baghdad neighbourhoods.