BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on Friday for a nationwide disarmament campaign and announced his Baghdad stronghold would be first to disarm just two days after an ammunitions cache exploded there and killed 18 people.
Sadr, whose political bloc won Iraq's parliamentary election in May, called on all armed groups to hand in their weapons to the government and declared Baghdad's Sadr City district would be a weapons-free area later this month.
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