government will be how to deal with Hezbollah's active participation in the war next door. Iraq: Two months before legislative polls, Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr—the leader of a powerful political constituency— announced his withdrawal from political life. Sadr cited "Islamic law" and "preserving the honorable

m missions it can inherit from the military. All these Americans will be in the line of fire once the troops withdraw. Last month the fiery cleric Moqtada al-Sadr issued a blunt statement about American staff working at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad after the Dec. 31 deadline. "All of them are occupiers, and it