Word: militiaization
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...when the provincial governor and members of the provincial council sought an end to the violence, they traveled to the holy city of Najaf to meet with the rabble-rousing cleric. The agreement seems to have restored the status quo ante: the militia will stay off the streets and the army will withdraw...
...been striking piecemeal at an enemy they are not even allowed to name: Muqtada al Sadr's Mahdi Army. And after fierce clashes Monday, it appears that Iraq's government and military is willing to go only so far in their efforts to rein in the powerful Shi'ite militia...
...Monday Sadr's Shi'ite militia ambushed Iraqi Army soldiers in the southern city of Diwaniya and killed about 25 of them in the ensuing battle. According to a U.S. military official at least eight civilians also died. Reports on the number of militiamen killed varied wildly, with early reports claiming as few as five and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki claiming...
...Unrest began Saturday when the Iraqi Army arrested a local Mahdi Army leader in Diwaniya. He was wanted for laying roadside bombs, including one that targeted an Iraqi Army division commander and killed three of his bodyguards. After a lull the fighting resumed Monday with the militia's deadly ambush...
...According to a Sadr representative in Diwaniya, the militia commander whose arrest sparked the violence will be tried in court and not held indefinitely as a detainee. Now that the military has backed off, the Iraqi legal system may do the same. Sadr himself was targeted for arrest in 2004 on the charge of ordering the assassination of a rival. The charge was ultimately shelved when he struck a deal and said he would join the political process...