Sadr Aide: 'The halt can be revoked at any time'

Aides to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr appeared Thursday to place conditions on his call for a six-month halt to militia operations, but the Iraqi capital was noticeably calm a day after the announced stand-down...

But in Sadr City, Baghdad's sprawling Shiite slum and a Mahdi army stronghold, an aide to the anti-American cleric seemed to equivocate. The militia operations were frozen for no more than six months, said the aide, Abu Firas Muteri, "and the halt can be revoked at any time if there is a need for that."

Sadr's official spokesman in the holy city of Najaf, Sheik Ahmed Shaibani, also said that the stand down "does not mean stopping resistance against the occupation."

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