Getting Tough? or is it the new middle east hockey look ?

[Canuck_Buck]

Iraqi leader vows to retake Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Saturday that Iraq's armed forces are set for an assault on Baghdad to take out militias and rogue security forces.

Aided by multinational troops, the Iraqi forces "will hunt down all outlaws regardless of their sectarian and political affiliations," al-Maliki said at an Iraqi Army Day parade.

"We will also severely punish those [security forces] who do not carry out orders or operate in a partisan or sectarian way," he said.

Forces will search out insurgents neighborhood-by-neighborhood, The Associated Press reported, and will start the assault this weekend.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/01/06/iraq.main/index.html

[Aught Six]

Considering that al-Maliki is afraid to tick off al-Sadr and lose his support, I'll believe in the crackdownwhen I see it. However, let's at least give him a couple daysto prove all of the naysayers wrong.