8/24/2004 07:37:30 AM|||Nathan Moore|||

Iraqi officials are tiring of al Sadr's defiance.

The Iraqi government is able to say and do things we won't do for public relations' purposes. If there were any doubts

"We are in the last hours. This evening, Iraqi forces will reach the doors of the shrine and control it and appeal to the Mehdi Army to throw down their weapons," Sha'alan told a news conference, according to Reuters. "If they do not, we will wipe them out."

Of course, the meat is in the enforcement. Apparently, the Iraqi government has mastered bluster, but has had trouble mustering will. Hopefully this disconnent will cease with this warning. If it does not, more innocents will die as the resistance continues to fight back.

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