Al-Sadr again

More from Iraq. Muqtada al-Sadr is at it again. When will the US put him down? While the US wants to create a new democracy in Iraq, they keep kowtowing to the old guard of the Arab Street. Al-Sadr is not going away. He will remain a thorn in the side of the new Iraq and America for as long as he is able to. If The US really wants to turn Iraq into Vietnam it will continue the half-hearted political approach to putting down the insurgency. Al-Sadr will become Arafat. The longer he is around, the more power he gets. Meanwhile, soldiers keep dying.

NAJAF, Iraq - Militant cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose Shiite militia has been battling U.S. forces across Iraq, warned Monday that he would fight "until the last drop of my blood has been spilled," in his first appearance since the violence began. …. While U.S. and Iraqi forces were trying to quell the eruption of Shiite violence,
attacks by Sunni Muslim militants persisted around Baghdad: A suicide car bombing targeting a deputy governor killed six people, and a roadside bomb hit a bus, killing four passengers….. The U.S. military also said a U.S. Marine was killed in action Sunday in the western province of Anbar, a hotbed of Sunni militancy. The death brought to at least 927 the number of American troops who have died in Iraq. ….An insurgent group warned in a videotaped message it would launch a campaign of attacks on government offices in Baghdad, telling employees to stay away. Al-Sadr's militants also kidnapped a top Baghdad police official and demanded that their comrades in detention be freed.