.…..Update.…..

Reported, Abu Al-Khasib another city close to Basra, now under Mahdi Army con­trol, Iraqi gov­ern­ment calls spe­cial forces from Kar­bala led by Maliki’s “broth­ers in law” to move to Basra.

.……End update.….

Just reported from Alwasaton­line reporter in Basra, Mahdi Army man­aged to arrest 17 Amer­i­can sol­diers, and seizes 7 ham­mer mil­i­tary vehi­cles, because of these devel­op­ments the Iraqi gov­ern­ment offered to nego­ti­ates with MA but Muq­tada Al-Sadr refused any nego­ti­a­tions, also 250 Iraqi sol­diers gave them­selves up to Mahdi Army.

Key bridge, con­nect­ing Basra city to Al-Kurnah is destroyed by Mahdi Army.

Sotali­raq reported that Maliki refused to meet Basra’s mayor “Moham­mad Al-Walili [from Al-Fadhilah Party], the mayor threaten if he removed from his posi­tion as mayor he will burn all the oil wells around Basra.

There is also reports about Amer­i­can war­planes involve­ment in the fights, and the Green Zone was bombed again at 8 O’clock p.

There are fight­ing in Al-Shurta neigh­bor­hood in Bagh­dad in the Karkh part [East, across the river]

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    1.News: Mahdi Army arrested 17 Amer­i­can soldierswww.roadstoiraq.com5 com­mentsSo­cial­Rank Just reported from Alwasaton­line reporter in Basra, Mahdi Army man­aged to arrest 17 Amer­i­can sol­diers, and seizes 7 ham­mer mil­i­tary vehi­cles, because of these devel­op­ments the Iraqi gov­ern­ment offered to

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    There is also reports about Amer­i­can war­planes involve­ment in the fights, and the Green Zone was bombed again at 8 O’clock p. There are fight­ing in Al-Shurta neigh­bor­hood in Bagh­dad in the Karkh part (East, across the river)http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2008/03/25/news-mahdi-army-arrested-17-american-soldiers

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    sol­diers announced their sur­ren­der to the Mahdi Army. (The same site reports the Mahdi Army cap­tured 17 Amer­i­can sol­diers and seven Hum­mers, refus­ing to nego­ti­ate for them with the gov­ern­ment, but I haven’t seen any con­fir­ma­tion or fol­lowup). (H/t toRoadstoIraq.comfor those two links). Voices of Iraq says Maliki’s office some­where in the Basra area issued a state­ment at the end of the day that said he has been in com­mu­ni­ca­tion with local offi­cials, tribal lead­ers, and so on, urg­ing them to help. The statement

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