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Iraq cleric reaches out to groups

Posted: January 5, 2013 at 3:45 a.m.

Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr reached out to Iraq’s religious minority groups Friday, visiting a Baghdad church desecrated in a deadly 2010 attack and a prominent Sunni mosque as public opposition spread against his rival, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

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