Americans caught in perilous game of brinkmanship: "Even one of Sadr's rivals, Hamid al-Bayati, who is a spokesman for the Shiite Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, smelled a rat when he told CNN: 'It is very bad timing, even if the basis is right. I don't know why they decided to act now. This comes after the closure of a newspaper which is nothing to do with the arrest warrant. 'So there must be some other things behind all these clashes.'"

Americans caught in perilous game of brinkmanship: "Even one of Sadr's rivals, Hamid al-Bayati, who is a spokesman for the Shiite Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, smelled a rat when he told CNN: 'It is very bad timing, even if the basis is right. I don't know why they decided to act now. This comes after the closure of a newspaper which is nothing to do with the arrest warrant. 'So there must be some other things behind all these clashes.'"