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[tagryn]

The Iraqi army's operation against the Mahdi militia in Basra this week: sign of an increasingly-proficient Iraqi internal security force, or a repeat of Lam Son 719 as a desperate grasping-at-straws attempt by Maliki's government to show it can actually confront the militias? Time will tell...

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[erikred.livejournal.com]

When your foes react by calling for sit-ins, you may want to rethink the whole proficiency thing.

Man, when I'm wrong, I really go all the way.

[erikred.livejournal.com]

"The cease-fire is over; we have been told to fight the Americans," said one Mahdi Army militiaman, who was reached by telephone in Sadr City. This same man, when interviewed in January, had stated that he was abiding by the cease-fire and that he was keeping busy running his cellular phone store.

OUCH.

Re: Man, when I'm wrong, I really go all the way.

[tagryn]

We're still in the fog-of-war period on this thing, being less than 48 hours old; we'll learn more about what's going on in the days to come.

(course, by then *that'll* be outdated by events, too, but that's life in the news media biz)