Madhi Army: NY Times Zigs, AFP Zags :: Bruised Orange

Interesting contrast between the NY Times Baghdad correspondent’s sniffing dismissal of the effectiveness of the troop surge and their assessment of Moqtada al-Sadr’s role in the reduction of the violence in Iraq, on Monday:

It’s not a simple cause and effect. The surge is a factor — but there are others, too, including the shifts in tactics among the violent elements in the Sunni and Shiite camps.  

On the Shiite side, the decline in violence against Sunnis comes mainly from a cease-fire by Moktada Al-Sadr, the Shiite cleric, which began after a scandalous bit of violence involving his militia in one of Iraqi’s holiest Shiite cities.

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