Sentence examples for At sadr from inspiring English sources

Gazing out at Sadr City, home to two million people, Maj.

Thousands of male followers abandoned their homes and jobs when a bomb destroyed a Shiite shrine in Samarra on Feb. 22, rallying at Sadr headquarters on a night and day of retaliatory bloodletting that plunged Iraq into sectarian war.

Muscat has acknowledged that he has met Sadr "a number of times" and described his attendance at Sadr's wedding as an "unexceptional event".

When I presented myself at Sadr's headquarters, I was led to a room on the second floor and told to wait.

Petraeus told the three senators, he recalled, that these ceasefires had not been undertaken "out of the goodness of their heart" but because U.S. and Iraqi forces had struck at Sadr's militias and killed many of his commanders and recruits as well as Iranian fighters who worked with him.

However, at Mr. Sadr's request, many in the militia have laid down their weapons.

A number of field officers had argued -- as a few still do -- for a swift strike at Mr. Sadr himself.

And at Mr. Sadr's behest, party leaders said that some newly elected lawmakers had been sent to Lebanon and Turkey to attend classes in public speaking and political etiquette.

The clerics at the Sadr office say that US soldiers entered the building and crudely shredded photographs of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the top Shia cleric in Iraq.

The proposed ban is clearly aimed at Mr. Sadr's movement and its affiliation with the Mahdi Army, said Saad al-Hadithy, a political science professor at Baghdad University.

An internationally respected cancer specialist at the Sadr teaching hospital in Basra, Dr Ali told me that in 1999, and today his warning is irrefutable.