CNN-I finally gave some coverage time, but spent more time showing a video of the gyrines pulling down Saddam's statue. I wouldn't underestimate the support al-Sadr gets from disaffected Sunni in Baghdad. Much of the crowd in the background was mixed, which makes sense, since much of the locus of the Baghdad-based insurgency is totally mixed. I highly doubt that the Sunni got bused into there like the Shia did, though. So the Sunni in attendance were most likely the sort who live alongside the Shia in Baghdad.
The idea that the Sunni insurgency is isolated in the west and north is always put forward by CentCom and the US, until someone attacks a Shia procession in the south, then those Sunni guys or Zarqawi zombies are supposed to be everywhere. Neither idea is accurate, but what has to be worrying the occupation is the fact that much of Baghdad is re-organised for more armed insurrection against the US occupation, and it is both Sunni and Shia.
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