Rice targets militia leader in speech

Monday, April 21, 2008

BAGHDAD -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward Sunday, hours after the radical leader threatened to declare war unless U.S. and Iraqi forces end a military crackdown on his followers.

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