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Saturday, March 29 2008, 05:50 PM Al-Sadr tells followers to defy Iraqi government Anti-American Shiite militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his followers Saturday to defy government orders to surrender their ... 11 News Stories, 22 Liberal Blogs, 4 Conservative Blogs Post A Comment

Oliver Willis Who Is Running Iraq? It’s not us, and its not the elected Iraqi government. It is the people who control when the fighting stops and starts. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr offered Sunday to pull his fighters off the streets of Basra and other cities if the government hal

Informed Comment Iran Brokers Call For Ceasefire; Bush Reduced To Irrelevancy In Iraq; Fighting Continues McClatchy provides a lot of important detail about Sunday's surprising developments regarding the fight between the Iraqi government and the Mahdi Army. A parliamentary delegation from Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's own coalition (mainly now the Da`wa

Eschaton Iraq'd I assume this is excellent news for Rudy Giuliani.BAGHDAD, March 30 -- Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr Sunday ordered his armed militia to get off the streets in Basra and to cooperate with the government to restore security. In exchange, he asked the gover

Think Progress Graham: We Must Defeat Militias ?backed By Iran? By Siding With Militia Backed By Iran The U.S. has stepped up its involvement in the intra-Shiite militia fighting in southern Iraq in recent days, air bombing several targets. The Bush administration is supporting the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (ISCI) and the Badr militia, which are align

Coalition Casualty Count News Ap: Al-sadr Offers Peace In Iraq Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is offering to pull his fighters off the streets of Basra and other cities if the government halts raids against his followers and releases prisoners held without charge. The offer is contained in a nine-point..

AlterNet.org Who Is The Iraqi Army? The so-called Iraqi Army fighting in the south right now is mainly the Badr Corps, a rival Shiite militia to Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army.

legitgov Iraqi Police Surrender Weapons To Al-sadr Sheik In Sadr City Sheik Salman al-Feraiji, right, Muqtada al-Sadr's chief representative in Sadr City, takes weapons from a group of Iraqi policemen in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 29, 2008. Some 40 policemen in Sadr City handed over their weapons to al-Sadr's

legitgov Sadr Offers Deal For Truce As Fighting Persists In Iraq In the Sadr City neighborhood, there were reports that two American Stryker personnel carriers had been blown up by roadside bombs. The Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr on Sunday took a step toward ending six days of intense combat between his militia allies

legitgov Sadr Orders Militia To Reject Pm's Call To Surrender Arms 'Sadr has told us not to surrender our arms except to a state that can throw out the (US) occupation.' Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Saturday ordered his followers to reject Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's call to surrender their arms as clashes with tr

legitgov U.s., British Widen Role In Iraqi Government's Offensive In Basra American and British forces on Saturday boosted their support of an Iraqi military offensive in the southern city of Basra, as Moqtada al-Sadr accused Iraq's government of acting like 'a dictatorship' and told his supporters to ignore orders to disarm. Ea

Eschaton Nouri Al-bush 'Peoples' are conventioning so...Nobody anticipating goes across cultures:It appears that Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's ultimatum to Shiite Muslim militiamen to surrender to the Iraqi government might not be working precisely as he had intended.When nobod

AfterDowningStreet.org - Impeach Bush and Cheney Now! Iraq Government Envoy Rebuffed By Sadr By Leila Fadel, McClatchy Newspapers BAGHDAD - After failing to break the resistance of Shiite militias in the five-day siege of oil rich Basra, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki sent a top general to hold talks with his Shiite rival, Muqtada al Sadr,

AfterDowningStreet.org - Impeach Bush and Cheney Now! Al-sadr Offers Peace In Iraq BAGHDAD (AP) - Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is offering to pull his fighters off the streets of Basra and other cities if the government halts raids against his followers and releases prisoners held without charge. The offer is contained in a nine-point

legitgov British Army Joins Battle To Control Basra British troops became involved in the intense fighting in Basra last night as clashes continued between Iraqi government forces and Shia militia. The army launched artillery shells at a mortar position of the Shia Mahdi Army, led by cleric Moqtada al-Sadr

Daily Kos Maliki Blinks On Sunday Nouri al-Maliki admitted defeat in his attempt to crack down on Moqtada al Sadr's Mahdi Army in Basra. Maliki had begun the week demanding that Mahdi forces surrender within 72 hours, calling this 'a decisive and final battle.' Yet as the disast

Informed Comment Mahdi Army Unsubdued; Iran Asks For End To Fighting Iraqi Police surrendering to the Mahdi Army in Baghdad. Courtesy AFP via al-Hayat.Ned Parker of the LAT does a good job in clarifying the rivalry between the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (with its Badr Corps paramilitary) and the Sadr Movement (with

Think Progress U.s. Airpower Deployed In Basra. Time reports: Despite having been initiated by the Iraqi government, the offensive by Iraqi security forces against militiamen in Basra is increasingly drawing in the United States, both militarily and politically. U.S. air power was used in the key port

AntiWar.com Sunday: 95 Iraqis Killed, 28 Wounded; Sadr Offers Truce Excerpt: After almost a week of heavy fighting throughout the southern provinces and Baghdad, clashes between the Mahdi Army and Iraqi security forces may be drawing to and end. Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has offered a truce as he called on the govern

Coalition Casualty Count News Afp: Sadr Orders Fighters Off Iraq's Streets Iraq's radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Sunday ordered his fighters off the streets, paving the way for an end to clashes with security forces that have killed hundreds of people.

legitgov Police Refuse To Support Iraqi Pm's Attacks On Mehdi Army Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki retreated from his demand that militiamen hand over their weapons by yesterday and extended the deadline to 8 April. This is a tacit admission that the Iraqi army and police have failed to oust the Mehdi Army from any

AfterDowningStreet.org - Impeach Bush and Cheney Now! Basra Assault Exposes Fraud Of ?national Reconciliation? In Iraq By Robert Naiman, CommonDreams.org Critics of the Bush Administration?s policies in Iraq have charged that the Bush Administration?s ?surge? policy has failed, since its stated intention was to improve security to create the political space for ?national

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