Al-Maliki vows crackdown in Baghdad BAGHDAD - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Thursday he planned to launch more security crackdowns like the one in Basra against "criminal gangs" in Baghdad.
And al-Maliki sounds more like the Bush administration everyday.
"We did not make mistakes, but we had points of weakness," al-Maliki said of the performance of the security forces. "We discovered that we have a shortage of appropriate weapons for the fight in Basra which we will work quickly to end."
As we saw in Basra
al-Maliki can't do it with his Army so you know who's army he wants to do the fighting.
