Iraqpundit has the skinny here. Mahdi is a rival of Maliki and al-Sadr and could be the head of a new more moderate governing coalition. It's quite possible Sadr was behind the move.
There's been an attempt on the life of Iraq's Shiite vice president, Adel Abdul Mahdi, according to Reuters. No one was hurt in the attack, since U.S. forces helped chase the gunmen away from Abdul Mahdi's convoy. But while there's violence in the streets of Baghdad everyday, there may be more to this attack than the brief news dispatches suggest.
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