Article: U.S. supports Iraq's crackdown on militias

Article: Seeking safety, Iraqis turn to militias; Car bombs in a Shiite slum in Baghdad Sunday killed 42. The area is policed largely by the Mahdi Army militia.(WORLD)
The Christian Science Monitor;  July 24, 2006 ;     700+ words ......al-Sadr's violent Mahdi Army. The US and British...Iraqis, as new Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki...for talks with Prime Minister Tony Blair and...neighborhood, a Mahdi Army stronghold. The...Mohammed al-Askhar, a Mahdi Army member who insisted...Blondie. ...

Article: Top men in al-Sadr's militia killed, caught: Mahdi Army in siege mode as Iraq's leader abandons group
Charleston Gazette;  January 19, 2007 ;     700+ words ...BAGHDAD - Mahdi Army fighters said...militia said Prime Minister Nouri al...against the Mahdi Army, which is...Sadr, the prime minister's key political...Wednesday, the prime minister said 400 Mahdi Army fighters had...

Article: Mahdi Army Expressing Siege Mentality
AP Online;  January 18, 2007 ;     700+ words ...BAGHDAD, Iraq - Mahdi Army fighters...militia said Prime Minister Nouri al...against the Mahdi Army, which is...al-Sadr, the prime minister's key political...Wednesday, the prime minister said 400 Mahdi Army fighters...

Article: Iraqi Prime Minister Acts to Rein In Militias
The Washington Post;  October 24, 2006 ;     607 words ......by armed factions, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said...statement Monday, the prime minister acknowledged that...province, where the Mahdi Army militia of Moqtada...London, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih called...after meeting British Prime ...

Article: Iraqi prime minister tied to anti-U.S. party
International Herald Tribune;  February 14, 2006 ;     685 words ......decide on a new prime minister has exposed...al-Jaafari as prime minister in Iraq's...to choose a prime minister under the...exactly what the prime minister had agreed...commands the Mahdi Army, a broad-based...expected the prime minister's ...

Article: EDITORIAL: Iraqi prime minister placates Shiites, worsens relations with U.S.(Editorial)
Morning Call (Allentown, PA);  November 2, 2006 ;     503 words ......s home, members of the Mahdi Army of radical Shiite cleric...course, members of the Mahdi Army militia were of particular...Shiite coalition of Iraq's prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki...removal on Tuesday. The prime minister clearly had made up his...the White House ...

Article: Basra in grip of civil war ; Battle to clear streets of Mahdi army kills 55
Evening Standard - London;  March 26, 2008 ;     376 words ...IRAQ'S prime minister today gave gunmen in Basra three...The troops' main target was the Mahdi army, led by radical cleric Muqtada...total of US military dead to 4,001. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's ultimatum came...resumption of intense fighting by his Mahdi militia could ...

Article: A Day When Mahdi Army Showed Its Other Side; Militia Seen as Heroic In Aiding Bomb Victims
The Washington Post;  November 27, 2006 ;     700+ words ......with the Shiite Muslim Mahdi Army of firebrand cleric...associated with the Mahdi Army's less- publicized...officials, dismantling the Mahdi Army and other Shiite militias...involved in tackling the Mahdi Army, the country's largest...emboldened him. "The Mahdi ...

Article: Iraqi prime minister disavows joint raid on Sadr City
Charleston Gazette;  October 26, 2006 ;     700+ words ...BAGHDAD, Iraq - An angry Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki disavowed...timetable on it," the prime minister said. The prime minister dismissed U.S. talk...especially sensitive for the prime minister. Until Wednesday, U...Muqtada's al-Sadr's Mahdi Army. Reining ...

Article: Shake-up in Iraq regime: Prime minister plans to reshuffle Cabinet
Sunday Gazette-Mail;  March 4, 2007 ;     700+ words ......BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's prime minister said Saturday he will...crackdown in Baghdad. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki also told...39-member Cabinet. The prime minister did not say how many Cabinet...crack down on the cleric's Mahdi Army militia, blamed for ...

Article: 2 Americans, dozens of Iraqis killed in fighting: Prime minister urged to call off U.S. visit
Sunday Gazette-Mail;  July 23, 2006 ;     700+ words ......politicians called on the prime minister to cancel his visit to...Saturday against the Mahdi Army of radical cleric Muqtada...Iraqi forces attacked the Mahdi Army office in Mussayib and...British troops arrested the Mahdi Army commander in Basra in...figure prominently ...

Article: Iraqis, Americans, Poles target Sadr's Mahdi Army
Sunday Gazette-Mail;  October 21, 2007 ;     700+ words ......and killing two. The prime minister met the provincial...Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army were grabbed in a...Diwaniyah, met with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in...roadside bomb in August. Mahdi Army militants were suspected...and we asked the prime minister ...

Article: I will bring al-Sadr into government, says the man tipped to be Iraq's new PM Al-Jaafari offers to accommodate radical cleric whose Mahdi army has killed coalition troops
The Sunday Telegraph London;  February 6, 2005 ;     700+ words ......become Iraq's new prime minister has offered to...Sadr, whose rebel Mahdi army has killed British...interested in becoming prime minister, but Adel Abdel Mahdi, now finance minister...Allawi, the interim prime minister, whom many Shia...

Article: Iraq chief orders surrender: ; Prime minister tells militias in oil-rich city
Charleston Daily Mail;  March 26, 2008 ;     376 words ...BAGHDAD - Iraq's prime minister today gave gunmen in the southern...officials said. The ultimatum came as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was in Basra to supervise...resumption of intense fighting by al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia could kill more U.S. soldiers...Iraqi soldiers and police ...