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The US has reduced the number of rocket attacks on the Green Zone since a sudden uptick on March 27 by pushing into the southern third of Sadr City and setting up US and Iraqi operating bases there, senior American military officials say.The aim now is to launch an ambitious plan of 30-day, 60-day, and 90-day public works and services-improvement projects designed to convince the local population that the Iraqi government – and not Sadr's Mahdi Army militia – is best able to improve the quality of life in an impoverished expanse of pot-holed streets, open sewers, and joblessness.
But residents are unlikely to reject the Mahdi Army fighters who control their streets as long as some benefits – jobs, business contacts, and some services such as healthcare – are derived from them, some analysts say.
If my choices in life are starving to death or chanting "Yes Yes to Genghis Khan" then I'm probably going to chant "Yes Yes to Genghis Khan". Whoever controls the delivery and distrubution of humanitarian aid to Sadr City will control Sadr City....thats why "Splinter Groups" of JAM shoot at anyone who tries to deliver humanitarian aid to JAM controlled areas.
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