[tobyhill]

"Iraq is ordering troops to the restive southern city of Amarah where militiamen loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr are said to have seized control. Video shows masked gunman on the streets and huge plumes of black smoke rising from buildings in the city where Iraqi forces took security control from the British two months ago."


http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/20/iraq.sadr/index.html

[mrsmith]

If the Iraqi army does a good job this will tuen out to be a good thing.

Heck, these militiamen may have been set up by Moqtada so he can sacrifice them to show his "loyalty" to the government- and get rid of some threatening members of his group.

Tribalism seems beyond Americans to comprehend. It's as if our county governments constantly fought over boundaries and power with each other and the state and the feds.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Iraq is ordering troops to the restive southern city of Amarah where militiamen loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr are said to have seized control.

US troops? To do what?