Thought you guys would get a kick out of this one.

I understand it was shot by a US soldier serving as an advisor for an almost all Iraqi patrol moving into Basra at night time.  Some amazing footage.

In case you guys haven’t heard, the battle is not going well for the Mahdi Army.  They are outnumbered and outgunned and have lost a significant portion of their force strength.

Via Instapundit, it is reported that “Six days after the Iraqi government launched Operation Knights’ Charge in Basrah against the Mahdi Army and other Iranian-backed Shia terror groups, Muqtada al Sadr, the Leader of the Mahdi Army, has called for his fighters to lay down their weapons and cooperate with Iraqi security forces.”

In layman’s terms, that’s called “surrender”.

I have no doubt the battle will go on, there are many who no longer fall Sadr and will wish to martyr themselves pointlessly.  But their ignoring his order to surrender will only further undermine his position beyond what this gamble of his to resist governmental forces has already cost him.

I’m sure the liberals in the crowd can conjure reasons why this is bad news, though.