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To: Sam who wrote (38464)	4/8/2004 4:32:20 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793916

The more they mass, the easier they are to take down. Digital Warfighter - Shiite cleric al-Sadr's loyal militia can swell to 6,000 fighters, U.S. says Thursday, April 08 2004 @ 03:47 AM EDT Contributed by: Stryker Seattle Times: U.S. military officials estimate Muqtada al-Sadr's black-clad Shiite militia known as the al-Mahdi Army has about 1,200 members in its stronghold of Sadr City, the Baghdad slum named for Muqtada's late and revered father, Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr. Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt told MSNBC in Baghdad that al-Sadr's force numbered about 600 "hard-core" fighters and can swell to 6,000. Across the rest of the country, however, mostly south of Baghdad down to Nasiriyah, thousands more are said to be committed to al-Sadr. And they have taken over whole sections of cities and towns, despite opposition from occupation forces.