Sadr's Army Dissolving

Their alternative is death.

American troops attacked insurgents loyal to a rebel cleric around a mosque in the southern holy city of Kufa late on Saturday and early on Sunday, killing at least 36 fighters, military officials and witnesses said. Soldiers seized a cache of heavy weapons in the mosque afterward, the military said.

The attack came shortly after American commanders in Karbala said it appeared that the militia led by the cleric, Moktada al-Sadr, had cleared out of the shrine area in the city center here in Karbala. Members of the militia, the Mahdi Army, had been using two shrines as shields in their war against the occupiers.

The withdrawal by the insurgents came after American forces pulled back from a mosque in downtown Karbala early on Friday that they had been using as a forward base.

Seems that there's no hurry for those 72 virgins.

I don't think Iran is getting its money's worth from this teletubby.