Writings From The Battlefield: When Will Be The End Of Muqtada AlSadir And His Army?

What I feared few days ago has unfortunately happened. On my way home I paid attention to the streets and I noticed that there are a huge number of police, army and US Humvees roaming the street pretty fast and one can easily know that they are really tensioned. At that time I knew he wasn't kidding…as I reached my neighborhood, there was nothing wrong in it so I though it might be a small confrontation and the dispute might get settled soon. But I was so wrong…I had no electricity to watch news so I had lunch and took a nap.

At noon, I met one of my neighbors and I asked him about it (he works near Sadir City). He told me something really scary: "Out of a sudden, we saw tens of pickup trucks with armed men wearing plain clothes…they started shooting randomly and asked us to go back. They said that if we don't get back we might get killed…but where could we go? It's closed, everywhere…there was no road we can escape through…but thanks to some mechanics who opened one of the closed alleys and people managed to escape."

Muqtada announced civil disobedience…and his army is back in action. Their demands are to stop killing and arresting AlMahdy army members because they are not in action and the army is frozen, and the hidden demand as I think is giving him the control over Basrah which is the chicken that gives golden eggs.