"Bush: He is a Baathist! Saddamist! Terrorist! Arrest him Bremer: Sir, he is a Shia leader… and he is anti-Saddam and Anti Bathist… Bush: Ok ok whatever... call him a cowboy… a thief… anything… Bremer: “outlaw”? Bush: Oh Boy! Yes yes yes! Go Bremer go! Whhhooooaaaaaaaa How can anyone be an outlaw, when we don’t have a law? Lol :*) AsSadr, as his spokesman declared, feel “proud” to be called an outlaw by the CPA. ... Iraq has four main groups, living together in harmony. My grouping theory has geographical titles: A) The most identified group is the northern region one, in which Kurds are the majority. Politics rule in this region, even if in some times it had some tribal roots, but at least it is represented in a political way. B)The Tribal region, is the middle and western one. Religion doesn’t have much influence here, and the very well identifiyed structure is the Tribal one. Each Tribe has a sophisticated hierarchy for leaders and decision makers; the head of the pyramid is the Sheikh, the leader. The big Sheikh has a meeting place (Motheef) full of assistants and visitors, each tribe consists of many federal groups, they are called (Fokhoth). Tribes have their laws, treaties, life style and protocols. “I’ll help my brother against my cousin, and I’ll help my cousin against any stranger”, if that makes sense. C) The southern area, the most homogeneous eight cities: Karbala, Hilla (the city that my mother is from), Najaf, Diwanyya, Simawa, Nasryya, Amara and Kut. I spent months going around these cities, and I doubt if anyone stop himself from falling in love in them. People there are very friendly, everything is cozy and warm, it always feels like home there. The international standards of space and time are different; you go through the market (Sooq) and find yourself in the middle of a human ocean! Everything is intense and pure. Socio-cultural laws rule here, life if full of small ornamental detailed rules for how to behave and act, it feels like someone wrote a manual for how to live, and everyone read it! This are is very interesting because of the extremely powerful socio-cultural leaders, the Shia leaders are local gods, they own the city, own the people, own everything! But in a friendly way. People obey their leaders without even thinking… “They know that’s the best for us” I was told. People have their own world of believes and superstitions that I used to enjoy in spite of my secular mentality. D) The fourth group is the no-group. The neutral lost metropolitans: Baghdad and Basra. As most of other big cities all over the world, Baghdad and Basra are hard to be categorized, but I can say that in the case of Baghdad external influence (coming from the southern or the western regions) has the final say. Basra has the same scent of Baghdad, and the southern area has its strong effect on the city. ... Ok… here is the majority! AsSadr is the majority, he is THE leader of the majority…AsSadr is the symbol of millions in the south who were waiting for Americans come, where is the problem? Why did Bremer decide to close AsSadr’s newspaper now? And arrest his assistant? Because the newspaper said that Bremer is acting like a new Saddam????????? I say that too :*) arrest me. I think that Bremer acts like a small Saddam sometimes; today he decided to forbidden demonstrations! One year in jail is what you get if you demonstrate without having an approval, to have the approval u must submit a form at least 24 hours before the demonstration with information about why, when, who, how many, bla bla blah.. :*)