...among the Shi'ites, notably including the poor who used to be his main power base. In their May 30 demonstrations, the Sadrists held up pictures of Maliki dressed as Saddam Hussein, the Sunni/Ba'thist dictator whose regime was toppled in April 2003 and who was executed in late 2006, and that disturbed many Shi'ites as well as the Sunni Arabs.

Sadr is being perceived among middle-class Shi'ites as fascist thug, and the decline of his image is affecting the image of Iran's Shi'ite theocracy in this country - perhaps also in other parts of the Muslim world. This is despite the fact that the Bush administration now appears to be weak in the face of the Iran-led axis in the GME.

The Christian Science Monitor of May 30 focused on a poor...

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