| 1 | He says he was threatened by the Mahdi Army, a militant Shiite group, and told to leave. | |
| 2 | But third-place finisher Mehdi Karroubi, a reformist cleric, challenged that result. | |
| 3 | Mehdi Karoubi, the other reformist presidential candidate, said on his website: "I don't consider this government legitimate. | |
| 4 | One reason is that the community's main instrument of vengeance in '06 and '07 - Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army - has been tamed. | |
| 5 | At the final session, Iraqi Vice President Adil Abdul-Mehdi said Iraq was formally expressing its reservations about the text. |
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