The Mystery of the Disappearing Sadrists
Internet Detective Kevin Drum of The Washington Monthly is facing a stone-cold mystery, as reported by Dave Price:
The New York Times reports that Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army has mostly melted away in Basra. Nobody quite knows why.
That is a real head-scratchin’ puzzler, I’ll allow.
Contributing to his befuddlement is the “fact” he offers that the Maliki government is more pro-Iran than Sadr has “ever been,” despite the fact that Sadr gets his orders from Iran and takes refuge there while Maliki’s IA is killing Iran-backed Sadrists by the barrel full.