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Iraq Civil War

Things have gone from bad to worse to beyond the pale as Sunni takes on Shia, Shia takes on Kurd, and everyone takes on America

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April 2008
- Iraqi Assault on Basra Was 'Thrown Together'
  
  New York Times | Apr 3, 08 6:37 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - American officials were expecting a gradual, methodical operation when Nouri al-Maliki moved Iraqi troops into Basra to restore order in the city. What they witnessed instead was a rush job: an Iraqi raid that had little forethought and began even before the last of the soldiers had arrived. "He went in with a stick and he poked a hornet's nest," one coalition official told the New York Times . More »
- Reporters Wounded in Iraq Win Peabody Awards
  
  Associated Press | Apr 2, 08 4:05 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Two journalists seriously injured in Iraq won Peabody Awards today for their stories on wounded veterans, the AP reports. Bob Woodruff of ABC and Kimberly Dozier of CBS each won for their profiles of soldiers returning home from Iraq. Woodruff suffered a brain injury in an IED attack in 2006, and Dozier sustained leg injuries in a car bomb attack the same year. More »
- Army's Role in Iraq Turning Personal
  
  Bitterlemons | Apr 1, 08 11:21 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - After five years of war, the US military is enmeshed in virtually all aspects of Iraqi life—a common development in such engagements but one that can prove to be a double-edged sword for military efficiency, writes Lawrence Kaplan in the policy forum Bitter Lemons. "American units slowly melt into the landscape, becoming in effect the most powerful of their area's tribes," Kaplan writes. More »
March 2008
- Baghdad Curfew Lifted; Basra Violence Slows
  
  AFP | Mar 31, 08 8:31 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Baghdad authorities lifted a 3-day-old curfew today as violence ebbed and soldiers from Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army began to heed his call yesterday to stand down, reports the AFP. The southern city of Basra also eased its curfew as 6 days of violent clashes wound down, although the BBC reported sporadic gunfire and parts of the city that were still under Mahdi Army control. More »
- Al-Sadr Orders His Militia Off Streets of Basra
  
  BBC | Mar 30, 08 5:15 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his fighters to leave the streets of Basra and other cities, reports the BBC, in an effort to end clashes with security forces. “Anyone carrying a weapon and targeting government institutions will not be one of us,” Sadr said, but minutes after his statement was released, militia shells hit Basra’s palace, and attacks on the Green Zone persisted throughout the day. More »
- Brits Join the Fight in Basra
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | Mar 29, 08 11:27 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - As the Iraqi army struggles to combat militias in Basra, British troops for the first time directly joined the fight, and American forces expanded their bombing beyond the militia stronghold. The Brits, who had previously provided only logistical and air support to the Iraqis, fired on an insurgent mortar team in Bosra, the Telegraph reports. Moqtada al-Sadr, meanwhile, told his soldiers not to surrender their weapons. More »
- Criticism Dogs Basra Battle
  
  CNN | Mar 29, 08 5:33 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - As US troops are drawn deeper into the four-day-old Iraqi crackdown on militants in Basra, critics see a long and difficult road ahead. While President Bush praised the operation as a "defining moment in the history of a free Iraq," military officials murmured that the battle "is going to go on for a while," CNN reports. More »
- US Joins Basra Battle; Maliki Extends Deadline
  
  BBC | Mar 28, 08 8:18 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki today gave Shia militants in Basra 10 more days to turn over their weapons, as fighting continued in Iraq’s third largest city. The US, meanwhile, made its first moves in the fight, bombing Mahdi Army positions, the BBC reports. Muqtada al Sadr, the radical cleric who leads the Shia militias, called last night for a political solution to end the fighting that has claimed 130 lives. More »
- Iraqi Lawmakers to Meet as Violence Escalates
  
  Reuters | Mar 27, 08 9:45 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Iraqi lawmakers will hold an emergency session in Baghdad tomorrow to try to find a way to resolve the escalating violence in Basra and the capital, Reuters reports. Baghdad, its Green Zone rocked by steady rocket and mortar fire, is now under a three-day curfew, and the State Department ordered US personnel to stay indoors. Militias in Basra, meanwhile, stood their ground for a third straight day against Iraq's security forces. More »
- Bush Praises Iraqi Offensive
  
  Associated Press | Mar 27, 08 4:47 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - President Bush praised the government of Iraq today for the offensive launched three days ago against militias in Basra, painting it as a sign of progress toward the goals of the US war, the AP reports. Bush also criticized Congress for calling for troop withdrawals so the military’s attention could be turned to anti-terrorism efforts elsewhere, such as Afghanistan. More »
- Saddam's Last Days Revealed
  
  CNN | Mar 27, 08 2:10 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The dictator who ruled with a murderous fist spent his time writing in his journal and tending to a small garden his captors allowed him in the prison courtyard. And on his execution day, the man known as "Vic" told guards to tell his daughter he was going to meet God with a clear conscience, a soldier for Iraq. CNN toured Saddam Hussein's detention cell, and reports these details of his last days. More »
- Sadrists Resist Crackdown, Demand Maliki's Ouster
  
  Reuters | Mar 27, 08 6:25 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Followers of Muqtada al-Sadr marched in Baghdad today, denouncing Nouri al-Maliki's US-backed government as non-representative, while the onslaught in Basra continued for a third day. Explosions were heard in the city every 10 to 15 minutes and more than 100 are already dead, Reuters reports. Residents of Iraq's second-largest city, the capital of oil production, have described the fighting as the worst since the 2003 US invasion. More »
- Iraq PM Threatens Sadrists as Basra Explodes
  
  BBC | Mar 26, 08 6:47 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - As Iraqi government forces battle Shia militants for a second day in Basra, the Iraqi prime minister has issued a 72-hour deadline for insurgents to lay down their arms. In a television broadcast, Nouri al-Maliki warned militants, many of them loyal to the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, to stand down or "face the most severe penalties," reports the BBC. Maliki, and not the American military, is directing the Basra operation. More »
- Iraqi Forces Battle Mahdi Army in Basra
  
  Reuters | Mar 25, 08 11:32 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Iraqi security forces fought pitched gun battles through the streets of Basra today, trying to wrest control of the oil-rich city from Mahdi Army militants. An enraged Muqtada al Sadr promised a “civil revolt” if the attacks on his faction didn’t stop and ordered police cleared from the streets of his Sadr City slum stronghold in Baghdad, Reuters reports. More »