In Sadr City, the Shiite slum that is essentially a city within a city, government forces have vanished. The streets are ruled by aggressive teenagers with shiny soccer jerseys and machine guns. They poke their heads into cars and detain whom they want. Mosques blare for American troops to stay out. Increasingly, the Americans have been doing just that.
I spent most of my time over there in Sadr (nee Saddam) city: trying to establish a respectable police force, patrolling streets, raiding houses, trying to disentangle American sensibilities and Iraqi law, and generally performing police functions as they are performed in places like that (I always called it the "Wild West"). If, as that article alleges, the whole of the city has fallen to roving vigilanties, that all that work and the high hopes of those living and working in Sadr City has gone to shit, it would be a monumentally depressing development. Of course, I don't put much stock in the media, but I had certainly hoped that, by now, things would have at least gotten better, not worse.
h/t Ace.
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