U.S. Antagonist in Iraq Takes Political Gamble

U.S. Antagonist in Iraq Takes Political Gamble

When Moktada al-Sadr, the populist Shiite leader and America’s most unyielding enemy here, returned to Iraq early last year after three years of self-imposed exile in Iran, he did so as a triumphant kingmaker whose actions proved decisive in ending months of electoral stalemate.

Now, with the United States military gone, he has emerged as something more prosaic: a mainstream political leader looking for new paths to secure the claims to power that his movement achieved through violent opposition to the American occupation.

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