Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Battle for the Future of Iraq

Name: Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Battle for the Future of Iraq
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ISBN: 9781416551485

ISBN-10: 1416551484

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Authors: Patrick Cockburn

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Timemagazine listed him as one of its "100 People Who Shape Our World." Newsweek featured him on its cover under the headline "How Al-Sadr May Control U.S. Fate in Iraq." Paul Bremer denounced him as a "Bolshevik Islamist" and ordered that he be captured "dead or alive." Who is Muqtada al-Sadr, and why is he so vital to the future of Iraq and, arguably, the entire Middle East? In this compellingly readable account, prize-winning journalist Patrick Cockburn tells the story of Muqtada's rise to become the leader of Iraq's poor Shi'ites and the resistance to the occupation. Cockburn looks at the killings by Saddam's executioners and hit men of the young cleric's father, two brothers, and…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 10/21/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English




The Road to Kufa



The Shia of Iraq



The First Martyr



An Eight-Year Whirlwind



The Shia Rise Up



Saddam's Revenge



The White Lion



A Second Assassination



Muqtada Survives



Murder in the Shrine



Seizing the Moment



The Siege of Najaf



The Fall of Najaf



A Turn to Politics



The Battle of Baghdad



The Surge



The Disintegration of Iraq


Afterword


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index