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Patrick Cockburn

Patrick Cockburn is the author of Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq (Scribner).

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  • Obama in Iraq: The Gift of a Timetable

    July 21, 2008

    An Iraqi government desperate for credibility could receive no better gift than Obama's exit plan.

  • Shown Up by Sadr, Again

    April 3, 2008 Subscribe

    To the humiliation of the US and Iraqi governments, the cleric's forces have faced down the Iraqi Army and are in control of Basra and half of Baghdad.

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