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Only CBS had a reporter file from Iraq on the looming power struggle between opposition leader Muqtada al-Sadr and the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Lara Logan showed us footage of fighting in Basra between the Sadrist Mahdi Army and government forces. "Basra has become the battleground for the proxy war between the United States and Iran taking place inside Iraq," Logan reflected. So far the Mahdi Army's seven months ceasefire in Baghdad is holding. The Sadrists called a general strike "followed by a popular revolt and threatened war as a final option."
NBC had Richard Engel looked at the state of Iraq's oil industry, where the rate of theft of crude is estimated at $10m to $30m each day. "Oil records are often misdated to facilitate organized theft or documents are just burned," Engel quoted from an anti-corruption draft prepared by the US diplomats. He showed the charred remains of the records room at the Central Bank and another torched records room at the Ministry of Oil.
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