Sadr to extend militia freeze?
From Juan Cole:
Politically and geographically, Sadr's group has been doing about as well without the large scale militia violence as they were doing before the militia freeze.
(Oh, and this is by no means a complete ceasefire. I read yesterday that the mayor of Basra has faced seven assassination attempts in the last four months. What Sadr has done is pull back the "unauthorized" Mahdi street violence.)
Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is preparing to extend for another 6 months his freeze on the activities of the paramilitary Mahdi Army.
Politically and geographically, Sadr's group has been doing about as well without the large scale militia violence as they were doing before the militia freeze.
(Oh, and this is by no means a complete ceasefire. I read yesterday that the mayor of Basra has faced seven assassination attempts in the last four months. What Sadr has done is pull back the "unauthorized" Mahdi street violence.)
posted by mikevotes at
7:36 AM
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did you ever listen to the lecture robert fisk did about the parallels between this invasion and the british one about 80 years ago? at that point it was a guy called 'Badr'
if you havent seen it you should take a look, amazing stuff.
leaders dont learn from history it would seem...
http://tinyurl.com/38hpv5
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Anonymous, at 7:52 AM
Running now, but I'll take a look later.
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mikevotes, at 7:55 AM
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