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[Aidoneus]

Al-Sadr gives first sermon in two months
Saturday 24 July 2004

Iraqi Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr gave his first public sermon in nearly two months, criticising Iraq's interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and the US-led occupation.

Aljazeera's correspondent reported that Al-Sadr was speaking to a large group of worshippers during Friday prayers at the Kufa mosque.

In his sermon, al-Sadr denounced the interim prime minister calling him an extension of the occupation.

"Damn him and damn the occupier," al-Sadr told the faithful, who gathered in the grand mosque in Kufa, 150km south of Baghdad.

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Making reference to possible US plans to attack Syria or Iran, al-Sadr said he would not allow any attack on Iraq's neighbours from Iraqi territory.

He also condemned the beheading of foreign workers. Al-Sadr said the captors of the South Korean worker were not justified in beheading him.

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4424B681-13CC-4745-B9DD-BEFDC596793B.htm