Maliki frees top Sadr aide, hours after arrest by US forces
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A senior aide to Moqtada al-Sadr, radical Shia cleric and leader of the Mahdi Army militia, was photographed shaking hands with Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, yesterday, hours after Mr Maliki secured his release from US custody.
In pictures released this morning by the prime minister's office, Ahmed al-Shibani, who had been held by coalition forces for more than two years on suspicion of carrying heavy weapons, grins as he meets Mr Maliki in Baghdad.
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