The Middle East Times website brings us this report and it starts off like this... Leaders of the new "elite" force Moqtada Sadr plans to establish to confront U.S. forces in Iraq if there is no American withdrawal timetable could find their kinetic wherewithal thin when they return from exile in Iran... Sweeps and targeted raids by U.S. and Iraqi forces for extremists' weaponry in northeast Baghdad's neighborhoods are chipping away at enemy munitions stores, and new road barriers and checkpoints into and within the area are making smuggling of arms more problematic than in the past, U.S. military officials say... From May to August Iraqi Security Forces, including National Police units, confiscated a mountain of weaponry in northeastern Baghdad from gunmen of anti-American cleric's Jaish al-Mahdi (JAM) militia and Iranian-influenced Special Group (SG) cells, as well as remnant cells of al-Qaida...
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Baghdad's Extremists Losing Weapons Stores
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