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Reporters sans frontières (Free subscription) | yesterday
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the unwarranted closure of a privately-owned radio station linked to Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr as fierce clashes continued between the cleric's militia, the Mahdi Army, and the US and Iraqi armies.Security forces reporting to the interior ministry raided the studios of al-Ahd in the al-Baladiyat district of Baghdad on 8 May and after locking staff...
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The Strata-Sphere (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
The four day ‘truce’ brokered by the Shiite Sadrists, the only remaining faction still fighting in Iraq, meant to stop the fighting in the Sadr City area of Baghdad has failed - indicating Sadr and his Sadrist movement in Iraq have no control over the Iranian trained and armed thugs trying to destabilize the democratically [...]
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OTB News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
A cease-fire deal between Mr. Sadr’s representatives in the Iraqi government and members of the leading Shiite bloc aims to end weeks of fierce battles in Sadr City. Share This
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Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
A cease-fire deal between Mr. Sadr's representatives in the Iraqi government and members of the leading Shiite bloc aims to end weeks of fierce battles in Sadr City.
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The Cool Blue Blog (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Over the weekend, renegade cleric Moqtada al-Sadr (who has been hiding in Iran for the past year) and the Iraqi Government, signed a peace agreement to end the violence in the Baghdad slum known as Sadr City. The agreement was...
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Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
5-12-08 *Iraq: Hasty truce with Moqtada al-Sadr tests his sway in Baghdad stronghold* *A cease-fire deal between Mr. Sadr's representatives in the Iraqi government and members of the leading Shiite bloc aims to end weeks of fierce battles in Sadr City.* By Howard Lafranchi | Staff writer...
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Confederate Yankee (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Moqtada al-Sadr, the figurehead leader of the Mahdi Army that fled to Tehran long ago, has lost Basra. It must have been heartbreaking for the New York Times to make the admission that the Iraqi Army and Police had pounded...
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Relief Web (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
A cease-fire deal between Mr. Sadr's representatives in the Iraqi government and members of the leading Shiite bloc aims to end weeks of fierce battles in Sadr City.By Howard Lafranchi | Staff writer of The Christian Science MonitorBAGHDAD - A cease-fire deal to end seven weeks of fighting in Sadr City could provide the clearest test yet of just how much sway the anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada...
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The Strata-Sphere (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Well, that did not take long. While Time magazine declared Sadr and his Sadrists victors in their efforts to surrender and sue for peace with the Maliki Government, I asked the core question about events in Iraq - who controls the Mahdi Army, Sadr or Iran? Well, if you go by the NY [...]
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Michael J. Totten (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
by Michael J. Totten Moment of Truth in Iraq , by Michael Yon (Richard Vigilante Books, 227 pp., $29.95) Iraq is where ideologies go to die. Arab nationalism, Baathism, anti-Americanism, al-Qaidism, Donald Rumsfeldism, and Moqtada al-Sadrism have either died there or are dying. Conventional liberal opinion, more or less correct about the foundering American war effort from 2004 to 2006, has...
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missing links (Free subscription) | yesterday
A group calling itself the Sons of the Army of the Imam Mahdi published a statement yesterday in the resistance-oriented newspaper Al Badil alIraqi (albadeeliraq.com) in which they said the "agreement" between the Sadrists and the UIA, and the accompanying statement purporting to be in Moqtada alSadr's handwriting, are forgeries perpetrated by sellouts around Sadr, and should be ignored. They...
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One Utah (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
There is still no end in sight after seven weeks of fighting Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army in Sadr City, reports Bill Roggio on The Long War Journal. U.S. Army units building a wall through Sadr City continue to meet heavy resistance. The attacks occurred during construction on the barrier along Qods Street, the main thoroughfare [...]
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missing links (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
The point that Moqtada has emphasized consistently in all of his recent statements is that the Sadr trend is at war with the occupation only, and not with the Iraqi forces. The strategy is to drive out the occupation (1) without triggering civil war between Iraqi groups; and in fact (2) use the process as preparation for an Iraqi government freed from the filth of the occupation. You can
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Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
A U.S. and Iraqi combined force raided the Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's office in Shoula neighborhood, western Baghdad, after a cordon was laid around the area according to Aswat al-Iraq- Voices of Iraq- (VOI) reporter. Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
IRAQ: An agreement aimed at ending fighting in the Baghdad bastion of Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr appeared to be on the verge of collapse yesterday after gunmen attacked US troops.
