The Independent: Exclusive: Secret U.S. Plot to Kill Al-Sadr

British newspaper The Independent reports how the U.S. army attempted to assassinate Muqtadā al-Sadr in an act of desperate deceit.

The US Army tried to kill or capture Muqtada al-Sadr, the widely revered Shia cleric, after luring him to peace negotiations at a house in the holy city of Najaf, which it then attacked, according to a senior Iraqi government official.

The revelation of this extraordinary plot, which would probably have provoked an uprising by outraged Shia if it had succeeded, has left a legacy of bitter distrust in the mind of Mr Sadr for which the US and its allies in Iraq may still be paying.

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