Al-Sadr trumps in latest showdown (AP)

Iraqis march during a funeral during a sandstorm  in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 31, 2008.  The funeral was for five persons, including two children, who were killed in recent clashes between the Mahdi Army and government forces backed by the American military.  (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - The Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr rarely ventures into the public eye. But he’s never far from the minds of Iraq’s leaders as one of the nation’s most influential and wily political survivors.

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