Protesters overran Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, home to the Iraqi Parliament and other government buildings, on Saturday, taking photos in the legislature’s chambers and vowing to return after a 24-hour occupation.
Contents: Iraq government faces climatic Awakening era political crisis; Muqtada al-Sadr and Iraq’s Awakening era
The three Americans kidnapped in Baghdad by Shiite militia last month have been released unharmed, following successful negotiations for their release by the Iraqi government.
Muqtada Al-Sadr, one of the most influential clerics in the Shiite world, has sent out an olive branch to Egypt’s Al-Azhar, a known hotbed for jihadi indoctrination and the most prominent Sunni institution in the world, seeking to unite the sects of Islam against the Jews.
