Adnan al-Zurufi, who was appointed last week, proposed that the US-led administration agree to delay legal proceedings against al-Sadr until after the Americans transfer power to a new Iraqi administration June 30.
In the northern city of Kirkuk, a homemade bomb exploded in a crowded market, killing four Iraqis and injuring 23, a security official said.
The bomb exploded in a mostly Kurdish district, also destroying two cars, said Colonel Anwar Mohammed Main of the Iraqi security forces.
Residents of the Shiite neighborhood Sadr City yesterday began rebuilding the Baghdad headquarters of al-Sadr, which was destroyed in a tank and helicopter attack by US forces at about midnight Sunday.
At the urging of the al-Sadr's al-Mahdi Army, local Shiites brought bricks, cement and gypsum to the site. Parts of the building had already been repaired by midday.
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