A butcher works in his shop as on the left side is seen a picture of the radical anti-US cleric Muqtada al Sadr, in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq. Loyalists of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on the Iraqi government to hold a public referendum on a long-term security deal with the United States.

First published in the June 01, 2008, 7:52 a.m. edition

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