Sunday, April 6, 2008

Rocket attacks on US bases in & out of Green Zone kill 3 soldiers .. while 'new' Shiite Militias clash with Mahdi in Baghdad ...

In McClatchy's here
".....Shiite Muslim volunteer fighters in neighborhoods dominated by the rival Mahdi Army militia of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr....As the new volunteers took to the streets on the eve of key congressional testimony by Army Gen. David Petraeus, ...The new Shiite neighborhood militias may be intended to compensate for the Iraqi Security Forces' poor performance in last week's offensive against the Mahdi Army in the southern port city of Basra

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