Politics By Other Means
Update: The NPR hourly news summary is reporting that things are going so well that al Malaki had to be evacuated from his headquarters in Basra. No word yet on how long he will extend the deadline for the Mahdi Army to disarm. 😈
Given that all they know about politics was learned from Saddam Hussein and the Hedgemony is it any surprise that the voter registration “drive” before the Iraqi provincial elections features military assaults, aerial bombardment, and general mayhem?
Dr. Cole covers the expanding theater of operations, as well as the number of groups that have “decided not to canvas” for ISCI.
The BBC still reports on the situation in Iraq, unlike the US MSM, and tells us that Iraqi militia defy call to disarm
The radical Shia Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr has defied a call by the Iraqi government for his powerful Mehdi Army militia to lay down its weapons.
Arms would only be handed over to an Iraqi government willing to end the US occupation, his senior official in Basra, Hareth al-Ethari, told the BBC.
Security forces have been trying to wrest control of the southern city and other Shia areas from the Mehdi Army.
March 29, 2008 8 Comments
