""Muqtada" is the story of Iraq's least known political figure who,
unfortunately for the United States, is arguably its most
important. Patrick Cockburn draws on thirty years' experience
covering Iraq and his own extraordinary courage to produce this
gripping account of the Shiite cleric and his Sadrist movement." --
Peter W. Galbraith
"N o subject could be more important and, of course, Patrick
Cockburn knows Iraq as few foreigners do. The right writer and the
right book." -- David Rieff
"No serious student of Iraq has failed to incur a debt to the
intrepid and intelligent Patrick Cockburn." -- Christopher
Hitchens
"P atrick Cockburn is one of the few journalists who has covered
the Iraq crisis almost from its beginning. His peerless reporting
has been instrumental in uncovering the true dimensions of the
tragedy of Iraq. His new book on Muqtada al-Sadr and the radical
Shia of Iraq is probing and perceptive." -- Ali Allawi
"P atrick Cockburn is, quite simply, the best Western journalist at
work in Iraq today. And now he comes forward to warn us that the
end game there is near, and we'd better pay much more attention to
Muqtada al-Sadr. Cockburn takes us behind the cliches and
half-truths to describe a complicated political operative who will
play a huge role in the power struggle that is sure to come." --
Seymour Hersh
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