Anti-American cleric's top aide taken in raid on mosque complex
Saturday, January 20, 2007
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. and Iraqi forces swooped into a mosque complex in Baghdad on Friday and detained a top aide to radical anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, the latest in a series of operations aimed at eviscerating the leadership of the Mahdi Army militia.
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