In one case last month , Gen. George W. Casey Jr. , the top American commander in Iraq , intervened to release another alleged Mahdi Army death squad leader captured in a raid in west Baghdad after Mr. Maliki demanded he be freed , apparently to assuage Mr. Sadr .
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