1.0 link 87611 <![CDATA[Anti-US Cleric's Cease-Fire in Doubt]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/20/antius-clerics-ceasefire-_n_87611.html BAGHDAD &mdash; With deadly attacks against U.S. targets increasing around Baghdad, anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr raised the possibility Wednesday that he may not renew a six-month cease-fire widely credited for helping slash violence.

The cease-fire is due to expire Saturday, and there were fears, especially among minority Sunni Arabs, that the re-emergence of al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia could return Iraq to where it was just a year ago _ with sectarian death squads prowling the streets of a country on...

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