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Sadr was never a US ally, but at least he kept a low profile until Bremer decided to 'deal' with him. And the latter onkly started with the newspaper closure - then came the tanks rolling over unarmed Sadrist protesters (which, if reported at all, was framed as fanatics jumping before tanks - now contrast that with the coverage of the Tiennamen Square massacre...), then arrests of local Sadrist leaders, finally with aggressive military moves near Sadr's house. That was a rather clear language.

And the same process repeated before the second Sadrist uprising in August 2004, BTW.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Thu Jan 12th, 2006 at 04:38:28 AM EST
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I have commented before how incompetent the US' handling of Sadr was (and how it played a role in the Spanish troop pull-out).

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jan 12th, 2006 at 05:54:35 AM EST
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