“In July 2003, [Iraqi theologian and political leader] Moqtada [al-Sadr] paid his first visit to Sadr City [a suburb of Baghdad] since the fall of the Ba’athist regime. Ecstatic crowds numbering tens of thousands, and carrying tribal and Iraqi banners, met him. Meanwhile, his stalwarts had seized all the main mosques and meeting halls in Sadr City, and in most of the other major concentrations of poor Shi’as in Baghdad, such as the Shuula district.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Ali A. Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq, Page 268