[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Funny way to have a cease Fire....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

H/T to the Long War Journal and the Sidebar there for pointing to this report.....

LWJ Blog:

http://www.longwarjournal.org/

[ZX12R]

Funny way to have a cease Fire....

Not over there. Situation normal.

[webheart]

Funny way to have a cease Fire....

I think it is working exactly the al-Sadr is planning it. Get the good guys to stop shooting so he can move his pieces to new positions. It's all a game for him. Just like any game, if you show your opponent too much mercy, you will lose, and we are showing too much mercy. That fool should have been set to his virgins 3 years ago.

[Marine_Uncle]

Deals must be going down. If anything, one might assume elements of the Mahdi army would be causing a lot of distractions within Sadr City and the surrounding areas outside the capital, to offset the ability of the Iraqi military to move more units north to support the Mosul operations.
Then again. Sufficient troop strengths (ability to carry out independent operations on a large scale) may be a reality at this point, realizing US air and ground is just a phone call away.
What will be interesting to read will be when the Mahdi militia starts to single out Iranian agents, or grab them and hand them over to the police/military.