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The Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, whose Iranian-trained Badr militia is Iraq's largest Shia one, has made much of Sunni killings of Shias as "spies" in and around the militant Sunni town of Fallujah.In his struggle to gain control, Mr Allawi is seeking to accommodate rather than squash the various sectarian factions.
Born in 1791, Saʿīd succeeded his father jointly with his brother Salīm in 1804, but their cousin Badr immediately usurped the throne.
"We used to get a lot of Iranian support but now Diyala is under the control of Hadi al-Amiri [commander of the Badr brigade and a longterm ally of Iran].
SIIC has also come in for criticism from some for its extremely close ties with Iran the grouping was created in Iran in 1982, and its militia, the Badr Organisation, was trained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.Although Mr Sadr himself has reportedly at times sought refuge in Iran, his spokesmen have dismissed such suggestions as lies.
Salah Moussavi, the local SCIRI representative, doubts whether Iran would allow the Army of Badr to piggyback on an American invasion and the Americans might well regard the army, with its Iranian links, as an undesirable partner.America and Iran are exploring the possibility of limited military co-operation.
SCIRI's opponents say this is just a pretext for stuffing the security forces with its own militia, the Iranian-trained Badr brigade.
Before the PA's appointed preacher could reach the pulpit of Ansar, one of the town's largest mosques, a popular Hamas member of the Palestinian parliament, Mahir al-Badr, who had recently been released from an Israeli jail, got there instead.
As both groups allegedly dabble in oil-smuggling, abductions and other local moneymaking schemes, plenty of conflicts of interest arise.The fighting in Amara reportedly began after a high-ranking Badr-affiliated police officer was killed by a roadside bomb and police, in response, arrested the young brother of the Mahdi Army's local commander.
A Special Court in Dhaka has sentenced two former leaders of the al-Badr killing squad to death for war crimes committed during Bangladesh's war of liberation in 1971.
Unsurprisingly, the Badr Brigades were left untouched by Maliki's offensive.
Sadr's popularity among Shias far exceeds that of that Dawa Party which Maliki leads, or the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) of his ally, Ayatollah Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, which has its own militia, the Badr Brigades.
