Resigning Sadrist Minister Saeed Al-Hashimi waves as he leaves a news conference in Baghdad April 16, 2007. Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his ministers to quit Iraq's government on Monday in protest at Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's refusal to set a timetable for U.S. troops to withdraw.
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