As US troops pull out, some ominous rumblings

This is a very disturbing report, Tensions rise as US troops depart - The National Newspaper in that it suggests that (1) many of the residents of the Sadr city section of Baghdad are hoping that the Mahdi Army militia of Muqtada al-Sadr will re-form if bombings and attacks on Shiites continue, and (2) some elements of the Mahdi Army may have decided to go after any US troops remaining in Shiite areas of Iraq's cities.