Monday, 7 April 2008

Moqtada al-Sadr's movement will be sidelined from politics....



Smoke rises from Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City after the Jamila market caught fire following clashes on April 6, 2008. One of Iraq's biggest food markets, Jamila in Baghdad's Sadr City, caught fire today during fierce clashes between Shiite fighters and security forces, an AFP correspondent and witnesses said.

An Iraqi family walks through a checkpoint at the entrance to Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City on April 7, 2008. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki warned in an interview broadcast today that radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's movement will be sidelined from politics unless its feared militia is disbanded.

An Iraqi woman begs as pedestrians pass through a checkpoint at the entrance to Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City on April 7, 2008. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki warned in an interview broadcast today that radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's movement will be sidelined from politics unless its feared militia is disbanded.

An Iraqi man pushes a woman sitting on a cart through a checkpoint at the entrance to Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City on April 7, 2008. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki warned in an interview broadcast today that radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's movement will be sidelined from politics unless its feared militia is disbanded.

An Iraqi man weeps near the scene of a blast that destroyed a house and killed eight people in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on April 7, 2008. A massive blast destroyed a house and killed eight people in Basra, the scene of last month's clashes between the security forces and Shiite militiamen, police said today. Police and residents said the blast was caused by a US airstrike but the American military said the cause was not known.

Iraqi men weep at the scene of a blast that destroyed a house and killed eight people in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on April 7, 2008. A massive blast destroyed a house and killed eight people in Basra, the scene of last month's clashes between the security forces and Shiite militiamen, police said today. Police and residents said the blast was caused by a US airstrike but the American military said the cause was not known.

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