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Monday, June 14, 2004

Mehdi Army Field Commander Killed in Sadr City area of Baghdad

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Five Iraqis have been killed during clashes with US forces in a Shiite slum district of Baghdad...

One of the dead is Karim Daraan, a Mehdi Army field commander in the sprawling Sadr City slum, which is home to over 1 million Shiite Muslims.

Hundreds of Iraqis have waved assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers in the air during Daraan's funeral, vowing loyalty to Sadr.

...gunfights with US forces often break out in Sadr City, the young cleric's main power base...
Hundreds? It used to be thousands.

As the days go on, Muqty's Al-Mahdi blackshirt bullyboys become more and more ineffective. Al-Sadr becomes more irrelivent each day.

How long will the Shia leadership allow him to control the (highly profitable) holy shrines? His day are numbered.
Posted by: Zayphar / 6/14/2004 01:25:00 PM
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