Nice hat!
A friend in Chicago thinks the charge will be misdemeanor-terrorism, but I heard al-Sadr’s alibi is solid because he was out of the country doing Mission brand fig promos.
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(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)
Main aide of Muqtada al-Sadr arrested
By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 58 minutes ago
BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces arrested one of Muqtada al-Sadr’s top aides Friday in Baghdad, his office said, as pressure increased on the radical Shiite cleric’s militia ahead of a planned security crackdown in the capital.
An adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, however, denied the government knew in advance about the raid, in which Sheik Abdul-Hadi al-Darraji was captured and said the detention was not part of the new operation aimed at quelling Baghdad’s sectarian violence.
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