See this interesting post on Muqtada al-Sadr on Juan Cole’s site. An example of some seemingly successful carrots and sticks applied by the CPA. Cole’s site is one of the few places online — in English at least — where you can find good sustained reporting on these nitty-gritty details of what’s going on over in Iraq. Invaluable.
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