Report: 2 Sadirist lawmakers fired for talking with U.S.

Where's Sadr?: Last month a US military spokesman said that Sadr had left Iraq for Iran. Sadr's aides deny this, as does Tehran, but it has been many weeks since Sadr appeared in public or attended prayers at his mosque outside Kufa. In April, 2004, the Coalition Provisional Authority issued an arrest warrant, alleging his involvement in a homicide, and U.S. military commanders expressed an intention to "capture or kill" him. No action was ever taken on the arrest warrant.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two Iraqi lawmakers from the movement of anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr were sacked on Wednesday for meeting U.S. officials, two officials in the movement said.

A political committee of Sadr's movement fired former transport minister Salam al-Maliki and parliament member Qusay Abdul Wahab as the movement's representatives in the legislature for meeting American officials two days ago, Abdul Mahdi al-Mtiri, a committee member, told Reuters...

"We have fired them for meeting the occupiers. It is against our beliefs to meet the occupiers. We are seeking to replace them in parliament with another two brothers," Mtiri said.

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