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Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr delivers the sermon during traditional Friday prayers attended by about 5,000 worshippers at the Kufa mosque near the holy city of Najaf in Iraq in this Friday, June 30, 2006 file photo where al-Sadr rejected the recently announced national reconciliation plan of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Today, in 2006 al-Sadr and the U.S. military are locked in a high-risk struggle as the Americans seek to restore order to Baghdad and shore up the shaky government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, himself a Shiite. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)