Escalation

From the Washington Times:

A senior member of Muqtada al-Sadr's Iraqi Shi'ite militia, the Mahdi Army, says the group is forming a squadron of up to 1,500 elite fighters to go to Lebanon.

We are choosing the men right now," said Abu Mujtaba, who works in the loosely organized following of radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. "We are preparing the right men for the job."

If true, this will present an interesting dilemma for the U.S.'s rebuilding effort in Iraq. Will this cause the Administration to finally wake up to the fact that there is a sectarian civil war in Iraq? Shi'ite Muqtada al-Sadr coming to the aid of Shi'ite Hezballah....nevermind...probably a coincidence.