BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military should not provoke the Mehdi Army militia of anti-U.S. Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr into a return to the widespread violence that took Iraq to the brink of civil war, a report said on Friday.
The International Crisis Group (ICG) think-tank said the Mehdi Army, once described by Washington as the biggest single threat to peace in Iraq, was "unassailable" in strongholds in Baghdad and mainly Shi'ite southern Iraq.
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