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Shi'ite Sadr movement call for calm after shrine attack

BAGHDAD, June 13 (Reuters) The Shi'ite group loyal to cleric Moqtada al-Sadr urged its supporters today to exercise calm after militants again attacked a revered Shi'ite mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra.

After the bombing of the Golden Shrine of Samarra in 2006, which left it partly destroyed, militants from Mehdi Army militia, loyal to Sadr, targeted members of Iraq's Sunni Arab community in Baghdad in revenge.

REUTERS SY RK1335

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