Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by the Los Angeles Times, "Iraq Crackdown in Amarah Begins Smoothly."
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Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by the Los Angeles Times, "Iraq Crackdown in Amarah Begins Smoothly."
Iraqi security forces Thursday arrested the mayor of Amarah and a provincial council member, both supporters of Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada Sadr's religious movement, on the first day of a military crackdown.
They met little resistance as senior aides to Sadr said his Mahdi Army militia had pledged to cooperate with the operation to avoid putting civilians in the southern city at risk.
"The fact is, nobody clearly understands," said Iraq expert Anthony Cordesman of the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. Read the article
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