Iraq, al-Sadr back: "Get the U.S."

The Iraqi Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr in a speech, the first after the exile, in the holy city of Najaf declared that "we say no to America" and incited the crowd by saying "we are still fighting." Sadr, who has returned to Iraq a few days ago after three years of self-imposed exile in Iran, in his first speech in public in Iraq urged his followers to "resist" the "American occupation" in a "peaceful" and all other occupants of the country.