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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071125/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
Four members of an Iranian-backed Shiite cell confessed to bombing a public market in central Baghdad, a U.S. spokesman said Saturday. He also blamed Shiites for recent attacks on U.S. bases, raising fears that a three-month truce by the most feared Shiite militia may be at an end.
Baghdad was generally calm Saturday, with no major incidents reported by police. But the recent uptick in attacks raised questions whether anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, head of the Mahdi Army militia, would call off the six-month truce he ordered last August.
U.S. officials have said the truce was generally holding and partly responsible for a 55 percent decline in attacks nationwide since June
So it WASN'T the surge that lowered the violence, but a truce ordered by Sadr?
Which tends to cover the time the US surged troops and ends about the time it has been said in Congress by the Generals that the surge would have to end?
So basically Sadr was just out-strategeried Bush?
Four members of an Iranian-backed Shiite cell confessed to bombing a public market in central Baghdad, a U.S. spokesman said Saturday. He also blamed Shiites for recent attacks on U.S. bases, raising fears that a three-month truce by the most feared Shiite militia may be at an end.
Baghdad was generally calm Saturday, with no major incidents reported by police. But the recent uptick in attacks raised questions whether anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, head of the Mahdi Army militia, would call off the six-month truce he ordered last August.
U.S. officials have said the truce was generally holding and partly responsible for a 55 percent decline in attacks nationwide since June
So it WASN'T the surge that lowered the violence, but a truce ordered by Sadr?
Which tends to cover the time the US surged troops and ends about the time it has been said in Congress by the Generals that the surge would have to end?
So basically Sadr was just out-strategeried Bush?