Calm returns to Iraq?
An Iraqi police commando stands guard at a checkpoint in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on April 1, 2008. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said today that a crackdown on Shiite militiamen in Basra was a 'success' and that 10,000 extra troops would be recruited to keep order in the southern oil hub.
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