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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Sadr's ceasefire deadline is finally drawing coverage

The second informal ceasefire called by Muqtada al Sadr for his Mahdi militia is due to expire near the end of this month, and as yet, he has made no commitment to continue it. (Finally getting a little coverage. AP, Reuters.)

Apparently, the way the Sadr camp is structuring this, either Sadr makes an announcement to continue the ceasefire by Saturday (read Friday prayers) or the ceasefire ends and Mahdi commanders will go back to battle.

(Later: I zapped part of this post because it appears he will extend.)

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