Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by Bloomberg, "Iraq Gives Ultimatum to Shiite Militia Group."
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Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by Bloomberg, "Iraq Gives Ultimatum to Shiite Militia Group."
BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered the Mehdi Army yesterday to lay down its arms within 72 hours as a second day of fighting in Iraq’s main centres claimed more than 60 lives.
"The current fighting is as much a power struggle for control of the south and the Shiite parts of Baghdad" as an attempt to establish government authority, said Anthony Cordesman, a security analyst at the US-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies.
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