In Focus Iraq: Inside the Sadr Movement

Learn more: http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/middle-east/iraq-death-nation-revisited

Moqtada al Sadr and his militia, the Mehdi Army -- or 'JAM' in American military shorthand, have been America's most intractable opponents in Iraq. But after recent attacks launched by the U.S. and Iraqi military against Sadr strongholds, cease-fires were negotiated and the Mehdi Army melted away from the streets. Has the Mehdi Army finally been defeated, and is this the end of the armed Shiite resistance to the occupation?

This report is part of Pulitzer Center-sponsored project "Iraq: Death of a Nation? (revisited)" (http://bit.ly/swJtcg).

Produced by Richard Rowley, David Enders, Alaa Majeed

In association with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and Big Noise Films

As originally featured on "Foreign Exchange with Daljit Dhaliwal," an Azimuth Media production, began airing 12/5/08

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[covertbabo12]

@turibest Do you mean, he takes part in the American-backed elections ?

[turibest]

God Bless Moqtada Al Sadr ...he is stronger then ever. he regrouped now ... Inshallah

[creten69]

Its VERY obvious what has to be done.Total withdrwal,Then their entire country has to be rebuilt by american slaves.Big fat fukn ambivalent americans who have no empathy ,or people who think what we have done is just and right.And this will happen all over the world,it will be divine,until america is under God.Until the world is the way Jesus would have it,the work will be unfinished.

[ReliableInsider]

Because of its dependence on a single commodity, oil, ANY Iraqi government is going to be socialist by Cheney's definition.

Well, what's done is done.

[ReliableInsider]

Tragically, now that Cheney has failed to fill the power vacuum Cheney created with a strong stable uncorrupt government, America will continue to be diverted from other crises by the lingering desire to see something positive happen in Iraq.

Who is wise enough to know what's possible?

We knew nothing about Iraq before the war, and now everything's changed. Perhaps no one one earth knows what to do next or who to support.