Portion below; whole article here: http://gorillasguides.com/2008/05/08/sadr-city-no-longer-safe-for-civilians/“When Umm Mohammed threw herself over the body of her son who was hit by a sniper’s bullet just outside their house in Sadr City, she would have never thought that the next bullet would kill her,” a local resident of the Shiite slum said.
For the last six weeks, Sadr City, the stronghold of Mahdi army fighters, has been a scene of uninterrupted clashes between the Shiite militiamen and U.S. and Iraqi forces.
Pointing to Umm Mohammed’s house, Abu Muhannad, a neighbor, added sadly, “Umm Mohammed, tried to draw her son into the house, but her body remained along with her son’s corpse on the sidewalk where their house is located, while neighbors watched powerlessly through their windows as nobody was able to evacuate or call an ambulance.”
The neighbor told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI), “We heard Abu Mohammed’s cries for help as he could not recover his beloved due to being unable to walk having lost one of his legs in explosion in Baghdad last year.”
“We all failed him since none of us were able to lend a hand for fear of being killed by another sniper’s bullet,” Abu Muhannad bitterly explains.
After 40 days of severe clashes between followers of the anti-U.S. Shiite Cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and U.S. and Iraqi troops, the slum, located in eastern Baghdad with a population of almost 2.5 million, seems rich in stories similar to that of Umm Mohammed.
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Maliki is against Sadr, one of the reasons is he fears him electorally.
I think Iran will side with whoever comes out on top.
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