http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/05/operations_continue.php
'The Mahdi Army has taken heavy casualties in Sadr City and the surrounding neighborhoods since the fighting began on March 25. A total of 579 Mahdi Army fighters have been confirmed killed in and around Sadr City since March 25, according to numbers compiled by The Long War Journal.'
This post at the Long War Journal has an excellent map showing the advance of the barriers sweeping north-east through Sadr City. The coalition and Iraqi forces are advancing block by block, killing or capturing the JAM and Qods forces, and then sealing the taken blocks against re-entry. Its like a huge vice, inexorably closing. A day will come soon, maybe in a month, when the whole of Sadr City will have been swept.
My prayers go out to the brave men, American, Iraqi, British, Australian and Canadian risking their lives so the people of Sadr city, and Baghdad by extension, can live securely and lawfully.
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