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Pictures of Shiite Insurgent Group Leader Released For the First Time

By CBS Investigates

May 29, 2009 / 1:06 PM EDT / CBS News

(League of the Righteous )

Pictures of the leader of the Shiite militant group League of the Righteous -"Asaeb Ahlu Al haq in Iraq" - Akram al Kaabi, appeared for the first time in a short video released by the group.

The video showed al Kaabi addressing a crowd of supporters in Najaf, firing an RPG and a machine gun at an unknown desert area.