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Alternet (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
The anti-American Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is the great survivor of Iraqi politics. In a tactical retreat he authorized a ceasefire [on Monday] under which the Iraqi army, but not U.S. troops, will enter the great Shia slum of Sadr City in Baghdad while Sadr's Mahdi Army militia will stop firing rockets and mortars into the fortified Green Zone.The ceasefire agreement is intended to end seven...
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Truthdig (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
In this first-ever biography of the religious leader many predict will take over Iraq after the Americans leave, Patrick Cockburn, one of the most-respected correspondents in the Middle East, provides a dramatic look at a man Paul Bremer denounced as a “Bolshevik Islamist.” READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries May 8, 2008 A Slap in the Face May 8, 2008 Obama’s Weather Balloon May 8, 2008 11 Million...
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
When it comes to the cat's cradle of Iraqi sects, tribes, families, ethnicities, parties, regions and seemingly eternal animosities, there is hardly a better candidate for teasing apart those crisscrossing threads than Patrick Cockburn.
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The Strata-Sphere (Free subscription) | yesterday
A spokesman for anti-American Shiite cleric al-Sadr admitted today that Iranian arms are being used by Sadrist and Mahdi Army forces, and then tried to defuse the news with the ‘everyone does it’ BS the news media is so gullible to bite on: A spokesman for the Sadrist movement of Muqtada al-Sadr, accused by the Americans [...]
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Confederate Yankee (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Despite feigned ignorance of the facts, the media knows that Muqtada's militias are being crushed, that al-Masri's terrorists are being picked off, and Iraqi's of all sects, Sunni Shia and Kurd, have newfound trust in a newly-muscular Iraqi government and...
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BrothersJudd Blog (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
A shaky truce takes hold in Sadr City (Associated Press, May 14, 2008) Army Lt. Col. Steven Stover, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, said Tuesday that the Sadr City fighting was caused by "special groups," Shiite factions that have broken with cleric Muqtada Sadr. Many are said by the U.S. military to have been trained and armed by Iranian forces. Iran denies the allegations. Nevertheless,...
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Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
*Al-Sadr movement reiterates commitment to Sadr city truce deal* 14 /05 /2008 Baghdad, May 14, (VOI) - A spokesman for al-Sadr movement loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday said his group would lay down their arms, abdiding by the deal they brokered with ruling Shiite Alliance. ...
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
A shaky cease- fire appeared to take hold Tuesday in Baghdad's Sadr City after cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who brokered the deal for Shiite fighters, said they would honor it even after clashes left at least 11 dead and 19 wounded.
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Iraq's security forces urged the movement of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday to do more to ensure a truce took hold in Baghdad and offered cash rewards for militiamen who gave up their weapons.
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Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Iraq's main Shiite political bloc and supporters of firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr signed a fragile cease-fire in Baghdad's Sadr City on Monday, hoping to end seven weeks of fighting that has left hundreds dead.
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CNN (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Violence flared in Sadr City on Sunday night and Monday morning despite earlier word of a truce between the Iraqi government and radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
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Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
The anti-American Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is the great survivor of Iraqi politics. In a tactical retreat he yesterday authorised a ceasefire under which the Iraqi army, but not US troops, will enter the great Shia slum of Sadr City in Baghdad while... Read the entire article at...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
One day after an agreement between followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and the Iraqi government to end more than six weeks of fighting, the streets in parts of the vast Shiite slum of Sadr City were deserted, amidst signs of a battle. Wires snaked out of potholes and from underneath tires - signs of past or future roadside bombs; abandoned pickup trucks, destroyed by airstrikes, littered...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
One day after an agreement between followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and the Iraqi government to end more than six weeks of fighting, the streets in parts of the vast Shiite slum of Sadr City were deserted, amidst signs of a battle. Wires snaked out of potholes and from underneath tires - signs of past or future roadside bombs; abandoned pickup trucks, destroyed by airstrikes, littered...
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Iraq's main Shia political bloc and supporters of firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr signed a fragile ceasefire in Baghdad's Sadr City yesterday. The U.S. military has alleged that most Shia extremists fighting Iraqi and U.S. forces in the slum have splintered from Mr. al-Sadr's Mahdi Army, and that the cleric's level of influence on those rogue groups is unclear.
