Meanwhile the Shia are taking back cities in Iraq.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/04/in...partner=GOOGLE
"April 4 ? Iraq was wracked today by its most violent civil disturbances since the occupation started, with a coordinated Shia uprising spreading across the country, from the slums of Baghdad to several cities in the south.
By day's end, witnesses said Shia militiamen controlled the city of Kufa, south of Baghdad, with armed men loyal to a radical cleric occupying the town's police stations and checkpoints."