You're welcome JP.
Sistani's Squeeze -13 Apr 2006
August 2004: The Battle of Najaf was raging, with Shia radical Muqtada al Sadr's rogue Mahdi militia turning Najaf's imposing Imam Ali Mosque into a fortress -- the equivalent of an Irish Republican Army terror faction using the Vatican as a bunker.
Sadr thought his occupation of the mosque was a "no lose" scheme. Sadr believed the fact that he could take control of a major Shia shrine confirmed the Iraqi Interim Government's (IIG) fatal political and military weakness. Demonstrating IIG flimsiness enhanced Sadr's personal prestige and established him as the "radical alternative" to Iraqi democracy.
Has Sistani's python begun its final squeeze?
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=041306C