Muqtada's City - Iraq

October 2007
A rare look at life inside Iraq's most notorious slum. Sadr City, Baghdad, has become a breeding ground for radicalism. Many of its three million citizens depend on Muqtada al-Sadr for support.

"We are a republic of widows and orphans", one school teacher explains. "The mosques don't have enough coffins to hold funerals." The inhabitants of Sadr City want only one thing for the future: stability. For them, US troops are associated with death. Since the beginning of the surge, US troops have raided Sadr City almost every night. (more)

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[mbleek2001]

if the Americans are not building roads then what are they there for? Let me guess steal the natural resources.

[qwertdc]

and i am shiite and another thing is that alqiada gets its money from DRUGS O.K. They need to educate them selves about other relgions not just theres.

[afgunshia12imam]

Long live Muqtada al sadr , we shia's should keep him on top on my eyes.

[afgunshia12imam]

long live shia's

long live ayaollah sistani,

many allah give my life to muqtada al sadr, long live muqtada al sadr,

am afghani

YAA ALI

[MrDudeer]

fuck fucking piss poor people from iraq. okay if you want america to go. STFU okay you wouldn`t have phones that say "get out america" if it wasn't for my man Ben Franklin and what country did he come from? not yours, america. they wouldn`t have as near as nice houses as they do, they would be living in huts without anything they couldn`t make without electricity. the land of the free and the home of the brave. so live with it

[xSherKhanx]

So where is Imam mahdi now?

[dlinechamp78]

@Ammd1986 I'm an Shia and i pray to allah and Muhammad(pbuh)

[dlinechamp78]

Mahdi Army doesn't kill Sunnis. 1/3 of the Army is Sunnis.

[iraqiGak47]

@Ammd1986 you guys the sunnas are the folowers of the sahaba the frends of the propfhets mohamed (saw)

we the shias the real muslims are the folowers of the prophet and his fammily and we all know family is better then frends

[212blueberry]

@hugsnkissesxo1 what have you done????? nothing. simple. you got in and got out. so please recall what have you done and what have you changed or helped with???