Slate summarizes today's news on the subject. Among his last words was a simple "Moqtada," in sarcastic reply to guards taunting him by chanting the name of upstart Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose father and 2 brothers were gunned down in 1999 by men assumed to be working for Saddam.
Moqtada was the subject of Newsweek's November 28, 2006, cover story.
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