"BRIGADIER Kareem Halbit Al Zayadi has a message for the Australian troops bound for his home in southern Iraq: "My people need electricity and running water, not more security."
The 39-year-old chief of police for Al Muthanna Province insisted yesterday local security was stable and relatively calm -- despite gunfire that crackles nightly across the capital Samawah, the base for the incoming Diggers."
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,15047380%255E2862,00.html"The Badr Corps claims to be in military control of Muthanna province, including the city of Samawah. Regional Badr leader Hadi al-Amiri said Monday that Samawah is secure, and there is no need for Australian troops to be deployed there. The Dutch used to be stationed in Samawah but have gone home, and are due to be replaced by 450 Australian troops. In fact, local policing in Samawah has been supplied by the Badr Corps of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq for some time. At one point the Dawa Party militia was also patrolling there. Al-Amiri's comment is the opening salvo in a struggle for control of the Iraqi south, where Shiite religious parties now control the provincial councils and therefore the police and bureaucracy."
http://www.juancole.comhttp://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1348115.htmSo if the Aussies piss of both Badr corps and Sadrist milita, and they join forces against the occupiers, it might get nasty.
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