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Source: The Real News Network

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The timing of the killing — not even two weeks after more than 120 people died and at least 300 were wounded in fighting between Sadr’s militiamen and government forces in the port city of Basra — raises the specter of a wider rebellion that could spread to Sadr’s strongholds in Baghdad.

That scenario would only further tax the outgunned Iraqi security forces and could undo the gains of the U.S. military’s widely touted troop buildup strategy.