print email comment close Iraq: Muqtada al-Sadr URL: http://www.cfr.org/publication/7637/iraq.html Description: Questions and answers about the "anti-U.S. Shiite cleric and the head of the Imam Mehdi Army, an armed militia that has waged an intermittent insurgency against U.S. forces in Iraq." Includes background information and notes on specific violent events (in 2003 and 2004) possibly linked to Muqtada al-Sadr and his supporters. From the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), an independent policy research organization. Author: Otterman, Sharon; Pan, Esther Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Extra Keywords Shi'ite, Shia, Shi'a Library of Congress Subject Headings: Anti-Americanism -- Iraq Iraq -- Politics and government Shiites LII Database Information: Record 2424 created by Jennifer English on 04/06/2004 Last modification on 09/21/2005 Published: 04/06/2004   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/2424