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He is a leader in Saddam's Fedayeen, the militia group that put up some of the strongest resistance to U.S. forces as they swept through Iraq, and he says he has organised recent attacks on American troops occupying Iraq.

Before prison and torture, before life in exile, before surviving seven assassination attempts and the execution of dozens of his relatives, Ayatollah Mohammed Bakr Al Hakim wished only to become a Muslim theologian.

Al Ansar threat looms in north