Iraq's Sadr group fires two deputies over U.S. talks

Source: Reuters

Iraq's Sadr group fires two deputies over U.S. talks
Wed Apr 4, 2007 8:38AM EDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two lawmakers from the movement of anti-American Shi'ite
Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr were dismissed on Wednesday for meeting U.S.
officials, an official in the movement said.

Abdul Mahdi al-Mtiri, a member of the political committee which took the decision,
told Reuters the committee fired former transport minister Salam al-Maliki and member
of parliament Qusay Abdul Wahab who met American officials two days ago.

Mtiri said Sadr approved the sackings which were the first public signs of tensions
in the movement which holds a quarter of the seats in parliament of the ruling Shi'ite
Alliance of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

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what it once was. Many of his followers abandoned him when he went the political route.