Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr announces that he is "freezing" his powerful movement for a year in order to focus on religious activities and reform his followers. Sadr's followers believe he is the Mahdi, the twelfth imam of Shiite Islam and the awaited savior who will bring peace and harmony to the world.

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