
Untamed Atrocity: “Creative Destruction” at Work in Baghdad
Car Bombs Kill at Least 60 at Baghdad Market (New York Times)
The intent of bombings such as this is clear: someone is trying to draw out the Shiite militias – specifically, the Mahdi Army militia of Moqtada al-Sadr, the only powerful armed faction in Iraq that maintains a quasi-independence from the Americans, the Iranians, the Ayatollah Sistani and the Maliki government.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki cannot simply attack the Mahdi Army directly as part of the “dazzling”