At any rate, rumours of Moqtada al-Sadr's political demise were exaggerated.
He was worsted in the armed confrontations in early '08, but he wisely de-escalated, and made a "strategic withdrawal."
If there was vote-rigging in the recent Iraqi parliamentary elections, it doesn't strike me as very likely that the Sadrists would have been the net beneficiaries, which means that the vote count, if anything, would tend to understate Moqtada's popularity.
He was worsted in the armed confrontations in early '08, but he wisely de-escalated, and made a "strategic withdrawal."
If there was vote-rigging in the recent Iraqi parliamentary elections, it doesn't strike me as very likely that the Sadrists would have been the net beneficiaries, which means that the vote count, if anything, would tend to understate Moqtada's popularity.
Originally posted by Reuters on Apr 9, 2010
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