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Al Dawa Party Will Act As Intermediary

Juan Cole 12/08/2003

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al-Da`wa Party will act as Intermediary for Muqtada

The Shiite al-Da`wa Party announced that it would attempt to negotiate a truce between radical young Shiite preacher Muqtada al-Sadr and the Americans. (al-Zaman). Muqtada recently announced that he would call fo a general strike in February to protest the jailing of a number of his followers. He has also, however, reaffirmed that he does not wish to take on the US with violence. One al-Da`wa leader, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, serves on the Intering Governing Council.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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