h/t Rising Hegemon. Link:
Followers of Mr Sadr handed out sweets as a symbol of victory in his main stronghold of Sadr City, though hours later, rockets were still being fired towards the government and American headquarters in the Green Zone. The US military was shocked at the speed with which the crisis span out of control. Boasts about the ability of the Iraqi army to cope on its own are demonstrably untrue.
Prior to Mr Sadr's statement, Baghdad was under a curfew, which was expected to be lifted today.
In Basra, a mortar bomb fired by the Mehdi Army hit the palace housing the Iraqi military operations centres, killing one of Mr Maliki's top military advisers.
Of course, too bad they don't know the phenomenal success of the surge means this doesn't count.
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