As If US Troops Don't Have Enough Problems, They Take On Sadr City

Pretending that they are running Iraq, the US occupation forces take on the second most powerful militia in Iraq. And they are Shia! Soon they will have everyone in Baghdad shooting at them. And look how that are using military police units, not combat units who are simply not trained or equiped for combat operations.
If Iraq is a quagmire, Sadr City is the meat grinder.
washingtonpost.com

American military police backed by Iraqi troops maintained their cordon of Baghdad's Sadr City on Sunday, manning barricades and checkpoints in and around the Shiite slum in an operation to find a kidnapped U.S. soldier and to capture the man considered Iraq's most notorious death squad leader.


The soldier, an Iraqi American translator whose name has not been released, has been missing for six days. He was abducted by armed men while making an unauthorized visit to see relatives in the Karrada neighborhood of central Baghdad last Monday.


U.S. forces have effectively sealed off Sadr City and its 2.5 million residents from the rest of Baghdad, and within Sadr City, they have isolated the neighborhood around the home of alleged death squad leader Abu Deraa, according to an Iraqi Interior Ministry official who would not be named because he was not authorized to release the information.