Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr isn’t happy with plans to keep US troops in Iraq for a few more years. Sadr is urging Iraq’s parliament to reject those plans. He’s also threatening to reignite armed resistance to the US military presence in Iraq.
The World’s Jason Margolis has the latest on the showdown between the Iraqi government and Shiite militants, as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has given the militants a deadline of 72 hours to lay down their weapons.
Faith talks to journalist Patrick Cockburn about the fiery, young Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who commands the Shia militia known as the Mahdi Army and whose story is told in Cockburn’s new book, “Muqtada.”
