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...The following month, Adel Abdul Mahdi, the prime minister of Iraq also resigned, after several months of turmoil....
...Mr Saad, Mr Dali and 10 other jailed reporters were released over the weekend....
...We’ve become like Iraq,” said Mahdi, 25, speaking a few metres from the blast site....
...Relations with Mr Maliki deteriorated further after the prime minister moved to crush Mr Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia in 2008....
...Many people died,” said Saad Jouma, an 18-year-old who was leaving the town....
...Mr Khalilzad’s forecasts of civil war “were not diplomatic”, said Saad Jawad of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq....
...Other analysts think that Mr Allawi and the US military have chosen a confrontation in Najaf because they think they can defeat the Jaysh al-Mahdi in the town and lay down a marker to the many other rebels...
...is number one on the Alliance list, which has been unofficially backed by Mr Sistani.Although Mr Hakim is himself a cleric, the party has lately been pushing one of its more liberal leaders, Adel Abdel Mahdi...
...Kind regards, Riad Abu Saad Such a sad lost of so many who were just going about living their daily lives....
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