(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Mazan al-Sadi, a Sadrist cleric in Baghdad, said Sadr, whose movement battled U.S. forces after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, was visiting the Shi’ite holy city of Najaf in southern Iraq.
“I am on my way to Najaf. The first thing that Moqtada did was to visit the Imam Ali Shrine, the grave of his father, and then he went to his family house in Hanana,” Sadi said.
Ahmed al-Khalidi, the media official at Sadr’s office in Najaf, confirmed the cleric was in the city.
Sadr, the scion of a Shi’ite religious family, galvanised anti-U.S. sentiment following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and led two uprisings against U.S. forces in 2004.
Sadr’s political movement secured a deal to be part of Iraq’s new government after supporting incumbent Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for a second term in office.
It has 39 seats in the new parliament and will get seven ministries.
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