soc.veterans

Frank Pittel wrote:
>
> There was never a truce. The US and Iraqi forces eliminated sadr's ability
> to fight so sadr declared a truce and went into hiding to rearm. As soon as
> he built up a little cache of weapons and a few handfuls of slobs willing to
> die for sadrs dream of running Iraq he started taking pot shots at civillians
> again. This spat of violence won't last long and with luck sadr will be killed
> soon.

Piddle Piddle Piddle. The US had nothing to do with it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/aug/30/iraq.ewenmacaskill
Thursday August 30 2007

The Iraqi militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr, called a six-month truce yesterday after
fighting with a rival Shia Muslim group in the holy city of Kerbala left more than
50 dead.

A spokesman for the Mahdi army claimed they would lay down their weapons for six
months and, during this time, would attack neither other Shia groups nor the US
army.
...

> In alt.politics.usa.republican Sid9 wrote:
> : March 26, 2008
>
> : Iraqi and U.S. Forces Battle Shiite Militia
>
> : By MICHAEL KAMBER and JAMES GLANZ
>
> : BAGHDAD - Heavy fighting broke out Tuesday in two of Iraq's largest cities,
> : as Iraqi ground forces and helicopters mounted a huge operation to break the
> : grip of the Shiite militias controlling Basra, and Iraqi forces clashed with
> : militias in Baghdad. The fighting threatened to destabilize a long-term
> : truce that had helped reduce the level of violence in the five-year-old Iraq
> : war.