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 [Indybay newswire] Shiite Power Struggle Divides Iraqis: Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki's American-backed crackdown on the Mahdi Army is dividing some Shiite families. There are family members who are split between loyalists to Muqtada al Sadr and the Ayatollah Hakim's Badr Brigades.

 [Shariah Finance Watch] The Jihad in Plain Sight - Must read!: program coordinated by the Islamic Society of North America””notwithstanding that the Justice Department named ISNA as an unindicted co-conspirator in its prosecution of an Islamic charity, the Holy Land Foundation, for funding Hamas. Another designated unindicted co-conspirator in the case, the Council for American-Islamic Relations, which was begun by a Hamas spin-off and boasts several members who’ve been convicted or deported due to terrorism investigations, is frequently consulted by government agencies.

 [Athlete of the Year by the Division II clarion.] But central and southern Iraq face a vicious power struggle ...: Sign up for Kyler mcclymond oneal news updates from The Plain. You can syndicate both the entries using.

[Party for Socialism and Liberation Stories] The roots of Iraqi resistance: The ruling class tries to delegitimize the Iraqi resistance, claiming that the Iraqi people do in fact have political power and can make their voices heard through the "democratic process." The notion that such "democracy" will solve the problems of the Iraqi people is a travesty—no democratic façade built under occupation will give the Iraqis the power to vote imperialist troops out of their country.

 [Pat Dollard | Young Americans] Hezbollah Overruns West Beirut: Street clashes exploded into gunbattles in parts of Beirut on Thursday afternoon after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah accused Lebanon’s Western-backed government of declaring war on his group. It was the militant leader’s strongest comments since Lebanon’s political crisis erupted 17 months ago.

 [Sigmund, Carl and Alfred] Why Lebanon Is Imploding: The religious aspect of the Shia and Sunni divide in Lebanon can’t be swept under the rug. That genie, let out of the bottle by Arafat and the PLO cannot be put back into the bottle.

 [Michael Moore - This Just In] Attacks in Baghdad spiked in March, US data show: "What is clear," he said, "is that the intra-Shiite power struggle has only begun, will be violent to some degree, and is likely to intensify through the fall 2008 local-provincial elections, the 2009 national elections and beyond."

 [International Military Forums] US And Iraqi Forces See Spike In IEDs In April: The increase in bombings partly reflects a struggle for control of the roads into Sadr City, a Shiite slum of more than 1 million people in eastern Baghdad. US and Iraqi forces attempt to block militias from moving weapons and .

[blog.Tribulationperiod.com] IRAQ MUST BE ONE OF THE TEN!: Sadr City is the principal stronghold of the Mahdi Army in the Baghdad area. Government troops supported by the U.S. military have been fighting for nearly two weeks to seal off Sadr City, which has a population of about 2.5 million, after militants there fired rockets and mortars at the U.S.-protected Green Zone and other major targets.

[The Cool Blue Blog] Too late to stop now: Days after intense fighting, and the call to peace from Shiitecleric Muqtada al-Sadr March 30, Multi-National Division - BaghdadSoldiers patrol the outskirts of Sadr City, a district of Baghdad,ensuring the safety of the city’s residents. 

[blog.Tribulationperiod.com] THERE WAS, AND IS, NO OTHER WAY!: Then, after the smoke and killing ended in a truce, Iraq would probably be splintered into three separate countries, Kurdistan dominated by Turkey, Sunnistan dominated by Syria, and Shiitestan as a part of Iran. As far as I am concerned, the more instability, political turmoil, and confusion we see among all of the nations of Islam, the better off the United States (the big Satan as we are called) and Israel (the little Satan) will be in the world’s fickle climate.

 [from the desk of Live Tim Blair news blog; Seattle, King County, Washington USA live right now 2008] cbs: Al-Sadr proclaimed a cease-fire last August and extended it indefinitely last month. But Al-Sadr's supporters have complained the Shiite-led government has used the cease-fire to accelerate a crackdown against their movement in the capital and the Shiite heartland to the south.

 [Dans Blog] Sadr Cit Proving Ground for Iraq Military: As the Iraqi and American officers huddled, the Iraqi lieutenant said some of his soldiers had been receiving threatening calls on their cellphones from members of the Madhi Army warning them to leave. The Iraqi lieutenant could not say how the Mahdi Army obtained their phone numbers, but some Iraqi soldiers who participated in the Basra fighting deserted after their families were threatened.

[The New Nixon Blog] Defining Success in Iraq: Whatever Saddam Hussein’s ties were to al Qaeda before the invasion, the reality today is that an important al Qaeda franchise has established itself in Iraq. It initially had the support of a significant portion of Iraq’s Sunni Arab community, but that community–with critical American support–has rejected al Qaeda and united with Iraq’s Shia and Kurds to fight it.

 [Dans Blog] Security tied to Basic Services in Baghdad: “Through a ‘Hezbollah-like’ scheme, the Shiite Sadrist movement has established itself as the main service provider in the country,” notes a recent report by Refugees International, an advocacy group. “As a result of the importance of nonstate actors in the delivery of assistance and security, civilians are joining militias.”

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