Moqtada al-Sadr announced that his Al-Madi Army is freezing all activities for the following 6 months. Although the official given reason for this move was internal reorganization, annalist believe that al-Sadr is trying to reestablish his control of the Shiite fraction.
The event comes on the same day when US forces arrested 7 Iranians in Baghdad, but released almost immediately, admitting the cause was an identity mix-up.
Read more on Mahid Army in the BBC article
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
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