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Patrick Barry over at Democracy Arsenal gives some reasons why we should take Moqtada al-Sadr’s threats to end his ceasefire seriously in their own right, and not just in the context of our strategically over-leveraged position in Iraq: Anxieties are growing that Sadr will shirk calls to stay passive and US forces are pleading with him to keep his militias at bay. And who can blame them? Violence levels, especially in Sadr’s strongholds around Baghdad, have declined steeply since he demanded that his followers temporarily lay down arms. The prospect of a reinvigorated Sadrist militia roaming the streets looms fearfully […]