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I'm really interested in how this all pan's out. This directly affects me since 90% of our attacks come directly from the Mahdi army in either the form of roadside IED's or indirect fire incidents. Mostly though, I want them to stop harrassing the local population and terrorizing everywhere they go. Stop kidnapping and murdering prominent figures in the community and demanding ransoms via extorition to finance their illegal activities. Prior to all this, we've only had minimal engagement against Al Sadr, one of the most recent bigger engagements being in Diwaniyah earlier this fall. Didn't we also have him in custody in 2004 at some point and let him go? But another problem that we must reflect upon, is that some of Al Sadr's followers have split from him and are no longer under his control.
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