Shiite Militias Audio & Video

Here and Now for Thursday, May 22, 2008
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Thu, 22 May 2008

Here and Now for Thursday, May 22, 2008

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[18:40]..." wide attempt to mainstream militant groups in Iraq we see. Muqtada outsiders Mahdi Army making a deal with the Iraqi Government that Iraqi troops can come in. A Mahdi Army gets to keep their arms but doesn't use them as the troops come in we watch Hezbollah. Getting to keep their arms"...

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NPR Hourly Newscast
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Mon, 12 May 2008

NPR Hourly Newscast

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[3:20]..." battling Iraqi Government US forces there have splintered away from -- solders Mahdi Army . It's not clear how much influence Klerk has over those factions under the agreement the respective sides put in place of forty"...

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NPR Hourly Newscast
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Sat, 10 May 2008

NPR Hourly Newscast

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[2:28]..." reach as far as Senegal -- drums beating across the continent. The Mahdi Army was later decimated by the British in a lopsided battle pitting -- against artillery. The justice and equality movement is set to"...

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Here and Now for Thursday, May 8, 2008
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Thu, 8 May 2008

Here and Now for Thursday, May 8, 2008

[description] Iraqi soldiers are warning residents to leave the embattled Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, ahead of what might be a larger offensive by US and Iraqi forces against Shiite militiamen. We speak with Tina Susman, Baghdad bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times. Slavery did not end with the end of the Civil War. In fact it went on in a different form until World War II. Free blacks were arrested on trumped up charges all across the south and were leased to landowners and industries. They were often forced to work in coal mines or lumber mills under horrific conditions. Douglas Blackmon uncovers this history in in his new book "Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II." The farm bill, funding for the war in Iraq and more. We speak with Gail Chaddock, Capitol Hill correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. Almost half of all women who leave the workforce to have children never return. But they would if they could f

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[3:17]..." this off again on again. Relationship with the time Sadr and his Mahdi Army you've written this week that the US military is tying itself in a verbal not over what to even call -- in"...

[4:14]..." that faith will not come right out and say they're fighting the Mahdi Army and that they wanted to use the term militia. When asked point blank who aren't you fighting and daughters did they say it were fighting criminal side. And gaining the gunman. They simply are in -- predicament essentially they even know everyone knows that the traditions is hanging by a threat at this point. It's still officially remains in effect so they have to do Chinese. Ways of talking about what's going on without coming across as. Formally accusing Muqtada daughter or his Mahdi Army at being all. But they're developing to do because frankly most observers can't -- not a starter in the Mahdi Army . Mahdi Army that's really engaged in not this fighting that's going on."...

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NPR Hourly Newscast
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Mon, 5 May 2008

NPR Hourly Newscast

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[0:07]..." on the security situation in Iraq. Until the US stops attacks on Shiite militias in Baghdad. Washington and Baghdad of repeatedly accused Iran of training and arming anti American Shiite cleric Muqtada -- fighters Tehran denies"...

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My WBZ Afternoon Headlines 04/25/2008
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Fri, 25 Apr 2008

My WBZ Afternoon Headlines 04/25/2008

[description] A alleged bank robber is arraigned, 3 cops acquitted in New York City, local officials worried about brush fires, these stories and more, in the WBZ Afternoon News.

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[4:02]..." don't have rooftop protection against rockets and mortar it's. Late last march. Shiite militias resume steady attacks on the green zone killing more than a dozen people including a US civilian government worker who was staying"...

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4/21/08: David Bellavia
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Mon, 21 Apr 2008

4/21/08: David Bellavia

[description] David Bellavia, author of  "House to House, an Epic Memoir of War" brings some stunning Iraq reality to the Michael Graham Show.

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[21:26]..." know I I don't understand notes political thing understand that the audience Mahdi army and and the but potter guys out there that that lived inside a city in Iranian revolutionary extremists -- some right now"...

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Patrick Cockburn: The New War in Iraq
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Fri, 18 Apr 2008

Patrick Cockburn: The New War in Iraq

[description] Patrick Cockburn's account of the Iraqi Army's flight from battle is that the US is trying to foment a civil war among the Shia majority that the Baghdad government cannot win.

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[0:27]..." to talk about the Maliki government's offensive against the scientists and the Mahdi army . And before we'd done I'd love to know where where was Dick Cheney and all this but where is Iran in the"...

[4:44]..." remote -- his brother in law the official Iraqi pressure on the Mahdi army . The American impatience Iran's huge force in the background where we going."...

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NPR Hourly Newscast
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Wed, 16 Apr 2008

NPR Hourly Newscast

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[2:58]..." is NPR. Fighting continued today between US backed Iraqi government troops and Shiite militias . With an air strike by an unmanned US drone reported to have killed at least four militants in basra. Police in Baghdad also reported finding a date earlier in the -- city district which they say claimed two lives and left more than a dozen people injured. Iraqi security forces have been engaged in fierce fighting was Shiite militias since -- government offensive against the militias began last month. In Miami a federal judge has declared a mistrial for the second"...

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NPR News: 04-11-2008 7PM ET
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Fri, 11 Apr 2008

NPR News: 04-11-2008 7PM ET

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[0:08]..." Iraqi cleric -- Honda also honor as significant political figure. So -- Mahdi army militia is battling US backed Iraqi government forces in Baghdad and the southern city of basra. -- has repeatedly calls for attacks"...

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