Max Bergmann: NSN Iraq Daily Update 3/27/08
Mar 27, 2008 - CIVIL WAR--STRETCHING FROM BAGHDAD TO BASRA--
CONTINUES TO THREATEN SECURITY GAINS
Sadr's Mahdi Army digs-in during assault by thousands of Iraqi soldiers and police trying to regain control of the southern port city of Basra. Basra has become the theater of a bitter turf war between the Mahdi Army and two rival Shi'a factions -- the powerful Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC) of Abdel Aziz…

