Article: Iraq's Maliki puts conditions to stop attacks on militias

Article: Iraq's Mahdi Army militia to resume activities unless Sadr renewsceasefire
Xinhua News Agency;  February 20, 2008 ;     191 words ...Iraq's Mahdi Army militia to resume activities unless Sadr...al-Sadr said on Wednesday that Mahdi Army militia would resume its activities unless...ordered his followers, the powerful Mahdi Army militia, to freeze activities for six months...

Article: Mahdi Army considers extending cease-fire
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  February 21, 2008 ;     700+ words ......freeze on activities of his Mahdi Army militia that has been credited with...Smith praised the role of the Mahdi Army's suspension of hostilities...the Badr Organization. The Mahdi Army was widely blamed for the...Shiites alienated by the Mahdi Army's growing ...

Article: Shiite cleric suspending activities of Mahdi Army
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  August 30, 2007 ;     419 words ......activities of his feared Mahdi Army militia so that the organization...announcement, a day after Mahdi Army members were accused of inciting...Iraqi and U.S. forces. If the Mahdi Army stands down, that could ease...prolonged conflict between the Mahdi Army and a ...

Article: BRITAIN: 'Freeze' on Mahdi Army.(Features)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  August 30, 2007 ;     219 words ......suspension of activities by his Mahdi Army militia in order to reorganise the...declare the freezing of the Mahdi Army without exception in order...the order also meant the Mahdi Army would no longer launch attacks...for al-Sadr denied that the Mahdi Army was ...

Article: U.S. denies airstrike on Mahdi Army target
Xinhua News Agency;  April 7, 2008 ;     325 words ......S. denies airstrike on Mahdi Army target BAGHDAD, April...that its aircraft bombed a Mahdi Army target last night in Iraq...in Basra, killing eight Mahdi Army militia members. The U.S. military...Sunday night, killing eight Mahdi Army militiamen and ...

Article: Mahdi Army Patrols Shiite Neighborhoods
AP Online;  July 13, 2006 ;     700+ words ......be with you." Al-Sadr's militia, the Mahdi Army, keeps a sharp eye out for strangers...bombers and other Sunni Arab militants. The Mahdi Army strikes fear among Sunni Arabs, who blame...district. Coalition officials believe the Mahdi Army and other militias have infiltrated the...

Article: Mahdi Army flexing muscles Al-Sadr followers push Sunnis out.
Columbia Daily Tribune;  June 10, 2007 ;     700+ words ......capital from their brethren in the south. Mahdi Army militiamen in the Shiite-dominated neighborhood...cordoned off the area. In the past 10 days, Mahdi Army activity has escalated, intensifying...appears to be part of a strategy by the Mahdi Army to control swaths of the once ...

Article: After setbacks, Sadr redirects Mahdi Army.(Moqtada al-Sadr )(WORLD)
The Christian Science Monitor;  August 11, 2008 ;     700+ words ......attempt to transform his Mahdi Army militia from a force intent on battling...and innocent Iraqis. The Mahdi Army is in a real crisis, says...summer at least 30 senior Mahdi Army members have been killed...would consider disbanding his Mahdi Army altogether if ...

Article: Iraq's Sadr uses lull to rebuild Army.(WORLD)(Moqtada al-Sadr, Mahdi Army)
The Christian Science Monitor;  December 11, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Iraq -- For more than three months, the Mahdi Army has been largely silent. The potent...Baghdad, even though the US says some Mahdi Army splinter groups that it calls criminals...in the process of reconstituting the [Mahdi] Army and removing all the bad people that...

Article: Al sadr suspends attacks by mahdi army militia
Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK);  August 30, 2007 ;     366 words ......six-month suspension of activities by his Mahdi Army militia in order to reorganise the force, an...Iran. "We declare the freezing of the Mahdi Army without exception in order to rehabilitate...spokesman said the order also means the Mahdi Army will no longer launch attacks ...

Article: IRAQ: UNABLE TO DEFEAT MAHDI ARMY, U.S. AIMS TO DIVIDE IT.
Interpress Service;  October 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr. Sadr's Mahdi army is determined to end the occupation...is not prepared to make peace with the Mahdi army. Instead it believes it can somehow divide...fighting. But the proposal Frank made to the Mahdi army at a meeting Sept. 3 with both Sunni...

Article: IRAQ: UNABLE TO DEFEAT MAHDI ARMY, U.S. AIMS TO DIVIDE IT
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  October 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr. Sadr's Mahdi army is determined to end the occupation...is not prepared to make peace with the Mahdi army. Instead it believes it can somehow divide...fighting. But the proposal Frank made to the Mahdi army at a meeting Sept. 3 with both Sunni...

Article: Britons 'seized by Mahdi Army in revenge for killing' ; Bodyguard who escaped helps in hunt for captives
Evening Standard - London;  May 30, 2007 ;     661 words ......Baghdad. The Iraqi government named the Mahdi Army as the group it believes seized the five...foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari said the Mahdi Army was most likely to be behind the abduction...There are suspicions that it might be the Mahdi Army because the location of the kidnapping...

Article: Easily a match for the Mahdi army
Evening Standard - London;  May 1, 2007 ;     88 words ...THE Army is sending an extra detachment of special forces to protect Prince Harry from the Mahdi army militia, but there's really no need. All Harry requires in Basra is the posse of hooray- hellraisers who hang out with him in London nightclubs...hoisting the flag of surrender? The Iraqi militias may be ...