I don’t think this guy under­stands how these things work in Iraq and par­tic­u­larly among the Sadirsts, Sadr Trend strength can­not be mea­sured in num­bers. Muqtada’s power is; Mobi­liz­ing the Iraqi street in a mat­ter of minutes.

As Al-Hayat Chief Bureau Mushriq Abbas, reported today that the Sadrists are dis­ap­peared but they far from being defeated:

Sadrists van­ished from the streets of their stronghold-neighborhoods. Their head­quar­ters in the Hus­seiniyahs [Shiite-mosques] are empty…but they left slo­gans on the wall: Break..We will con­tinue soon.

I said above, regen­er­at­ing mem­bers is the eas­i­est part and Abbas reported the hard­est part:

Sadrists ter­mi­nolo­gies are also changed, “col­lab­o­ra­tors” instead of “Nawa­sib” [a name used by the Shi­ites to insult Sun­nis, an equiv­a­lent of “Rawafidh” used by the Sun­nis to insult Shi­ites], “col­lab­o­rat­ing gov­ern­ment” instead of “ene­mies of Ahl Al Byt” [ene­mies of the profit-house, again used against Sun­nis].

Chang­ing ide­ol­ogy also included:

Sadr Trend mem­bers said: We need to edu­cate the peo­ple to fol­low the cur­rent changes that the occu­pa­tion is the real dis­ease in Iraq.

The pur­pose of this “break” explained by Awan as the prepa­ra­tion for the com­ing election:

The Sadrists sit­u­a­tion will hin­der the upcom­ing elec­tion and the United Iraqi Alliance will fail to achieve sig­nif­i­cant gains, espe­cially in the South­ern Iraqi cities, because of the broad base of the Sadrists pub­lic support.

Can not be clearer, for the time being Sadrists put all their efforts and energy on the elec­tion, and they will be back soon.