Juan Cole reports on hitherto-unknown fissures within the US administration in Iraq: I have it from a source I consider reliable that the order for the arrest of Muqtada al-Sadr in early April, 2004, which came as such a surprise and threw the country into chaos for two months, came from Dan Senor. Senor is said to have acted on instructions from Neoconservatives in the Pentagon, and to have kept Paul Bremer, his putative boss, out of the loop. Bremer was presented with a fait accompli. I speculated at the time that the Neocons came after Muqtada because he had … Continue reading A Senor Moment