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Confused about what's going on in Basra? So is pretty much everyone.

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For years, the Mahdi Army was one of the main destabilizing forces in Iraq. But last summer, its head cleric, al Sadr, agreed to a cease-fire, a move that everyone agrees has done a tremendous amount to diminish the violence in recent months. But Sadr's group has splintered. And Shiite militias, some connected to cleric al Sadr and some not, have been mixing it up in the southern city of Basra, the city the UK handed back...
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OpedNews volunteer from 2005 to 2013.

Amanda Lang was a wonderful member of the Opednews team, and the first volunteer editor, for a good number of years being a senior editor. She passed away summer 2014.

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