BAGHDAD: Powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr vowed Wednesday to "shake the ground" under the feet of advancing Sunni militants as Iraqi premier Nuri al-Maliki warned rivals against exploiting the crisis to sideline him.

Sadr, whose movement long battled US forces during Washington's nearly nine-year war in Iraq, also voiced opposition to American military advisers meeting with Iraqi commanders combatting an offensive that has overrun swathes of five provinces, killed nearly 1,100 people, displaced hundreds of thousands and threatens to tear the country apart.

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