Iraqi troops enter Baghdad’s Shiite stronghold

It would appear the MSM is shaken that their heroes would be sought after like this.

BAGHDAD - Thousands of Iraqi troops moved unchallenged into Baghdad’s Sadr City Tuesday to seize the Shiite militia stronghold, in the largest attempt yet by the government to impose control, an Iraqi military spokesman said.

With Al Sadr hiding in Iran, they are scrambling to declare a hudna.

Iraqi soldiers also found a large weapons cache on the grounds of the Shaaroofi mosque Monday in the Shaab district, a Shiite militia stronghold that is adjacent to Sadr City, according to a U.S. military statement.

Oh look, the Iraqis themselves are rooting out weapons caches!

The find included eight armor-piercing roadside bombs known as explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, seven rocket-propelled grenades as well as other munitions and documents detailing kidnappings and murders, the military said.

The military said U.S. soldiers did not deploy around the mosque to avoid offending Islamic sensibilities…

Even though there were probably terrorists hiding in there. Mosques have even been used to manufacture car bombs. This is an important strategic error that needs correction; worrying about their ’sensitivities’ is ridiculous. When the mufsidoon stop using the mosque as a holy place, and use it as a safe haven to construct their bombs and collect and deploy weapons, it should be stopped.