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Violence Persists in Southern Iraq

Violence in southern Iraq continues Wednesday after the Iraqi government called for Shiite militias to lay down their weapons. Alex Chadwick talks to Joost Hiltermann, Middle East Project Director for the International Crisis Group, about the struggle for control.

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