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...officers who fled Gaza, leaving their troops behind. Efforts to bolster his forces through recruitment are also struggling. One well-placed Palestinian in Amman told TIME that Abbas was rebuffed by Palestinian commanders when he sought to bring the 2,500-strong Jordan-based Badr force to the West Bank to shore up his own militia against Hamas...
...notorious Quds Force. Some think the assault party that entered the complex in a convoy of SUVs was a rogue cell of the Mahdi Army. Still others suspect the hit team was a kind of all-star insurgent squad, with skilled fighters from the Mahdi Army, Iran and the Badr Brigade, another Shi'ite militia...
...Army militia began turning up dead in Diwaniyah. Residents working with coalition forces at a Polish army base in the area became targets too, as did local journalists, wealthy residents and some members of the police, which are thought to have links to a rival Shi'ite militia, the Badr Brigade. By the end of March local officials say nearly 60 people had been killed. On March 20 Mahdi Army fighters torched police checkpoints in 15 different neighborhoods around Diwaniyah and laid claim to the territory, prompting U.S. forces to launch a counterattack on on April...
...Bush administration's main goal in Iraq at the moment is to halt the sectarian killings - blamed in large part on Shi'ite militias, including the armed wing of Hakim's own party, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. Known as the Badr Organization, the militia was formed in Iran during the Saddam era, and it is known to take guidance (and, some of its critics allege, perhaps even its orders) from Tehran. U.S. officials have been pressing the Iraqi government to disarm such militias. The President brought up that suggestion at his breakfast meeting with...
...Mahdi Army of Moqtada al-Sadr. Although the two Shi'ite clerics are rivals, they have a mutual interest in keeping the U.S. at arm's length. Al-Hakim knows that if he goes along with any American plan to crack down on al-Sadr's militia, his own Badr Organization will likely be next...