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 [israelforum.com] Woes of the Mahdi Army: Shiite rivals are waging gangland-style hits with diminishing fear of reprisals. Iraqi-led forces, meanwhile, are pressing their advantage against al-Sadr's weakened network - militia cells, quasi-civic groups and street-level operatives who have all crafted reputations as the champions of the Shiite poor.

 [elias] Iraqi Crackdown on Shiite Militia in Third Day save you tube movie: PlusIraqi Crackdown on Shiite Militia in Third DayIraqi Crackdown on Shiite Militia in Third DayThe Associated PressThe Iraqi military crackdown on Shiite militia in Amarah, south of Baghdad, entered its third day on Saturday with no sign of the clashes which occurred in Basra and Baghdad’s Sadr City earlier this year. (June 21)[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE] [Notes:Dateline: Amarah, Iraq]It’s being called Operation Promise of Peace.And it’s already raising tensions in this oil-producing city south of Baghdad.It’s here where soldiers searched offices of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr for a third straight day…

[Open Source Intelligence] [osint] Iraqi cleric’s aide detained, sparking Shiite rivalry: DIWANIYAH, Iraq (AFP) - An imam of a prominent Shiite mosque in the city of Diwaniyah has been detained by Iraqi forces, an official said Saturday, .

[Obsidian Wings] Criminally Minded?: One of the [ISCI] party’s members, Jalal al-Din al-Sagheer, a sheik and a member of Parliament, is arranging state aid for Sunni families willing to move back to Topchi.

 [International Military Forums] Liberal Bias doesn't exist?: Shiite militias, notably the Mahdi Army of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, have lost their power bases in Baghdad, Basra and other major cities. An important step was the routing of Shiite extremists in the Sadr City slums of eastern .

 [Global News Blog Headlines] Iraq - Iraq: Troops arrest 189 in security swoop (Adnkronos): Iraqi demonstrators wave national flags and a banner of hardline Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr during a protest on July 18, 2008. Sadr called on the government on Thursday not to sign an accord being negotiated with Washington that will .

[Thinkin'bout Stuff] Refreshing bit of honesty from a Democrat: It did allow the Shi’ite government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in the last several months to show leadership by joining, if not leading, the military effort to clean out of Basra the masked Mahdi Army controlled by the anti-U.S. Shi’ite extremist cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and from the Sadr City section of Baghdad he claimed to control.

 [At-Largely] Declare Victory and Don't Go Home: He armed all sides of the Iraq civil war to the teeth, bribed the Sunni militants into leaving Maliki's security forces--made up largely of Shiite Badr militiamen--alone, and he caught a break when Sadr agreed to keep his Mahdi Army people quiet as long as they got amnesty and Maliki's Badr bubbas quit harassing them. Petraeus has largely managed to keep the open sore in the northern Kurdish region out of the public eye, and whenever anything bad happens that accidentally gets in the news, he simply blames it on Iran. 

[Rantburg] Five wanted men nabbed in Basra: Baghdad and a number of southern provinces have witnessed armed confrontations between security forces and Shiite Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi army fighters on March 25, hours after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced the launch of Operation Saulet al-Foursan (Knights' Assault), which aims at eliminating armed groups in Basra.

 [Dans Blog] Measurements to frame the progress in Iraq...: Although Sunni and Shiite extremists are still around, they have surrendered the initiative and have lost the support of many ordinary Iraqis. That can be traced to an altered U.S. approach to countering the insurgency — a Petraeus-driven move to take more U.S. troops off their big bases and put them in Baghdad neighborhoods where they mixed with ordinary Iraqis and built a new level of trust.

 [Kepler View] Iraqi Sunni Bloc Rejoins Government: But the gesture had wider implications ”” seen as a significant step toward political reconciliation and efforts to cement security cooperation between Shiite-led forces and armed Sunni groups that rose up against al-Qaida in Iraq. The United States has pressured Iraq's government to work toward reconciliation, hoping it will add stability and ease the burden on U.S. and other foreign forces.

 [SWJ Blog] 20 July SWJ News, Op-Ed, Blog and Events Roundup: With Friday's announcement by the White House that the United States and Iraq have agreed to set a "general time horizon" for a US troop withdrawal, it is increasingly obvious that Iraqi political leaders are calling the shots when it comes to a future role for the United States, and that President Bush has not learned anything about Iraq in the last five years. Since November 2007, when Bush and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki agreed on a declaration of principles that would provide for the rules of engagement for US forces beginning on Jan.

 [Simoneicgcarl's Weblog] Goodish info for Iraq, antagonist 34: Other self marked that Spain has foreseen upon lend partnered with the fateful sponsor seeing that establishing a untapped area code, in line with a high school cram-full in contemplation of warp subscribers, into Al Diwaneya mandant(170 km hyperborean in point of Baghdad).Italy is contributing toward the remaking with regard to the sunset: “Italy has allocated 2.18 full many euros[$2.68 zillion] insofar as measure drag Iran’s westerly Nasiriya realm, where far and away relative to the Itaiy’s 3,000-stong ranks unsettled favorable regard Iraq is based. ‘The moneys self-government remain depleted good terms Nasiriya and borderlands so at odds projects ingoing the fields in relation to healthfulness, programmed instruction, drinkable whirligig and infrastructures, constituting roads, ridicule tackle and the guano orderliness,’

 [Global News Blog Headlines] Middle East News - Sarkozy: Syria and Lebanon will open embassies ...: The raid underscored the bitter, often violent feuding between those loyal to the rebel Shiite cleric Moktada Al-Sadr and forces allied with the government. Syria, Lebanon to open embassies, France says (CNN.com) .

[Marcellos Blog] Which Language Should Your Child Take?: In fact, the opposite is true. In languages, anything that you have already learned will enhance what you study in the future - you have programmed your mind to learn vocabulary, sentence structures, and different ways of expressing things.

[Recent articles | ukwatch.net] British and American Black Ops in Iraq: In September of 2003, months after the initial invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Iraq’s most sacred Shiite mosque was blown up, killing between 80 and 120 people, including a popular Shiite cleric, and the event was blamed by Iraqis on .

 [Indistinct Union] SOFA=DOA: By 2007, however, the Bush administration hoped that it had forged a new level of cooperation with Maliki aimed at weakening their common enemy, Muqtada al-Sadr’s anti-occupation Mahdi Army. SIIC leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim was invited to the White House in December 2006 and met with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in November 2007.

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