And....
Deal reached to keep weapons off streets: Sadr City mayor
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra
Canadian Press
Thursday, January 25, 2007
BAGHDAD - The mayor of Baghdad's Sadr City says he has reached an agreement with political and religious groups to keep weapons off the streets of the heavily populated Shiite militia stronghold and has presented the deal to U.S. and Iraqi government officials in an apparent attempt to avoid a military crackdown on the area.
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=39884a3b-33fa-4d3d-a6f3-ed0402d08a83&k=81586
Hopefully that would be a futile attempt.