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...report on the power struggles in Iraq included a photo of children playing in Sadr City in front of a mural that paired an image of an Abu Ghraib prisoner with that of the Statue of Liberty. That picture showed the true extent of the damage that has occurred. The very people who came to liberate the Iraqis have treated them in ways that are similar to Saddam Hussein's. It makes one wonder whether the American forces have overstayed their welcome and whether it's time to hand over the country to the Iraqis?and to a leader...
...mismanagement that marred his administration but for the political arrangements set in place during his 13 months in Baghdad. But he can't escape questions about his political judgment--in particular the decision in late March to close the newspaper affiliated with the radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. At the time, Bremer said the paper was inciting anti-Americanism and endangering U.S. troops. Adnan Pachachi, then a Governing Council member, says that no one was consulted when Bremer decided to shut the paper down. In response, al-Sadr's loyalists staged a rolling revolt in Baghdad and across...
...Radicals Moqtada Sadr's militia and its supporters...
...democratic election is sacrosanct. Delaying the election may be a riskier proposition than actually holding one. But even if the poll date remains firm, the jockeying of rival parties for position in the election campaign could produce confrontations of a more complex nature. For example, the movement of Moqtada Sadr, the firebrand Shiite rebel cleric who has waged a guerrilla war against Coalition forces since April, has been invited to participate in the committee to select delegates for a national congress to advise the new government, but has refused to accept only one seat on that committee on the grounds...
...Mainstream The Players: Shi'ite Arabs comprise almost two thirds of Iraq's population, and their community has produced a wide spectrum of political parties, from some of the secular figures in the interim government to the radical Islamist followers of Moqtada Sadr. The single most influential figure among them is the supreme spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. His closest supporters in the political realm are the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq and the Dawa Party, both of which are represented in the Interim Government...