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Maliki vs Sadr

27 Mar 2008 04:01 pm

Anthony Cordesman, national security analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, offers his take on the violent power struggles now unfolding in Iraq:

Much of the current coverage of the fighting in the south assumes that Muqtada al-Sadr and the Sadr militia are the "spoilers," or bad guys, and that the government forces are the legitimate side and bringing order. This can be a dangerous oversimplification.

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