BBC;Last Updated: Sunday, 4 April, 2004, 14:56 GMT 15:56 UK
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Profile: Moqtada Sadr

Radical Shia leader Moqtada Sadr has a band of loyal followers
Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr is a young leader opposed to Iraqi co-operation with the US-led forces in the country. He has repeatedly called for foreign troops to leave Iraq, and his followers have held regular anti-US protests.
He is thought to be aged 30 - a youthful leader in a society which considers age and experience essential to religious authority.

To his supporters, Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr is a figurehead wise beyond his years. But his detractors see him as an inexperienced and impatient radical who aims to dominate Iraq's most revered Shia institutions.

The youngest son of Muhammad Sadiq Sadr - a senior Shia cleric assassinated in 1999, reportedly by agents of the Iraqi Government - Moqtada Sadr was virtually unknown outside Iraq before the US-led invasion in March 2003.

The collapse of Baathist rule revealed his power base: a network of Shia charitable institutions founded by his father.

Followers

In the first weeks following the US-led invasion, Moqtada Sadr's followers patrolled the streets in the poor Shia suburbs of Baghdad, distributing food.

His name clearly has powerful resonances - the Shia district of Baghdad, Saddam City, has been renamed Sadr City.

In June 2003 he established a militia group, the Mehdi Army, in defiance of coalition arms controls, pledging the Shia religious authorities in the holy city of Najaf.

He also announced the establishment of a rival government to the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council, but the move came to nothing.

Moqtada Sadr has also set up a weekly newspaper, al-Hawza. The US-led authorities announced a 60-day ban on the newspaper on 28 March 2004, accusing it of inciting anti-US violence.

The young cleric is known for giving fiery sermons which urge the application of Islamic law while appealing to Iraqi national pride.

In contrast to more moderate clerics such as Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Moqtada Sadr calls on Shia spiritual leaders to play an active role in shaping Iraq's political future.

In April 2003, just two days after the fall of Baghdad, supporters of Moqtada Sadr were accused of killing Abdul Majid al-Khoei, a moderate Shia leader who had worked with the British and US governments from exile.

Moqtada Sadr strongly denied any role in the murder.

The young cleric's supporters have also clashed with followers of Ayatollah Sistani - who has become prominent in the run-up to the planned handover of power to Iraqis on 30 June.

Moqtada Sadr denounced the August 2003 attack on the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad.

The young cleric has visited neighbouring Iran since Saddam Hussein was ousted, meeting senior officials in Tehran.

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