Title:
Muqtada al-Sadr and the fall of Iraq
Author:
Cockburn, Patrick, 1950-
ISBN:
9780571239740
9780571239757
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Publication Information:
London : Faber and Faber, 2008.
Physical Description:
289 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
General Note:
Formerly CIP.
Includes index.
Contents:
1. The road to Kufa -- 2. The Shia of Iraq -- 3. Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr : the first martyr -- 4. The Iran-Iraq War -- 5. The Shia rise up -- 6. Saddam strikes back -- 7. Sadr II : the white lion -- 8. Sadr II : the assassination -- 9. Muqtada survives -- 10. Murder in the shrine -- 11. Muqtada seizes his moment -- 12. The siege of Najaf -- 13. The fall of Najaf -- 14. Muqtada turns to politics -- 15. The battle of Baghdad -- 16. Muqtada and the surge -- 17. Muqtada.
Abstract:
"War correspondent Patrick Cockburn charts the rise of Muqtada. He examines the Shia uprisings; Muqtada's family background (in particular the martyrdom of his father, Muhammad Sadiq, and his father-in-law, Muhammad Baqir, by Saddam Hussein); his leadership of the 70,000-strong Mehdi army; his links to the Iranians; his ambivalent relations with the Iraqi government; and the botched attempt to kill him by the U.S."--BOOK JACKET.
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