Basra the battleground for Iraq army effort…

Iraq's Army will target militias in Iraq's oil capital Basra in a last ditch effort to route the growing violence before provincial elections which may take place this fall, Kim Sengupta reports for The Independent.

This poses a huge dilemma for citizens and the country. Who exactly of the dozens of militias will the Army target -- the random and/or organized street gangs, the religious fundamentalists that pack heavy weaponry, those armed fighters loyal to the ruling political parties in Baghdad, those militias loyal to the political parties that oppose the ruling parties in Baghdad?