Following clark’s link below, Juan “This Guy” Cole links to a paper he published last fall in Middle East Journal, “The United States and Shi‘ite Religious Factions in Post-Ba‘thist Iraq”. (pdf)
The paper gives a good description of the ideology, history, geography, and current (as of last Fall) state of the Shi’ite factions. I would put it as a must-read to get a grasp of what makes the current state of affairs so complex in Iraq. Very informative.
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