ARE WE FINALLY CORNERING AL SADR? IS MALIKI FINALLY GETTING TOUGH?

AP:

Two top aides to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr were detained early Thursday by U.S. forces in the southern city of Najaf, a spokesman for al-Sadr said.

Salah al-Obeidi, a spokesman for al-Sadr who delivers Friday prayers on behalf of the cleric in the nearby city of Kufa, and Muayed al-Khazraji, a leading aide from Baghdad, were taken in a raid by U.S. and Iraqi forces at about 1 a.m. local time, said Muhammed Jamil, a spokesman in the city some 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad.

I hope we and the Iraqi government keep the heat on this Iranian-supported jihadoterrorist bastard. He and his comrades are a major cause of violence in Baghdad.