Sunni insurgents are still a worse threat to the Americans, in part because most of the Mahdi Army seems to be lying low, perhaps on orders from its leader Muqtada al-Sadr.
逊尼暴乱对美国威胁才更严重,部分因为什叶军队实力小,也可能因为他们听命于领袖Muqtada al-Sadr。
An acclaimed painter, who has exhibited his tsunami canvasses in Japan and Kuala Lumpur, Mahdi Abdullah designs the weekly「s pages, though he could make a lot more money painting his canvases.
设计周刊专栏的MahdiAbdullah是一位公认的画家,在日本和吉隆坡举办过海啸画展。尽管他可以靠画画挣更多的钱,但他却没有这样做。
Palestinian analyst Mahdi Abdel Hadi is less optimistic.
巴勒斯坦分析人士哈迪则没有这么乐观。
Palestinian analyst Mahdi Abdel Hadi is less optimistic. He says settlement activity is eroding support for the peace process.
巴勒斯坦分析人士哈迪则没有这么乐观。他说,建立定居点的活动正在逐渐减少人们对和平进程的支持。
He may also have to promise to lay off the Mahdi Army.
他可能还得要保证遣散马赫迪军。
Some even fear that Mahdi fighters will again target women」s rights activists, as they did in Basra in 2007 and 2008.
有些任甚至害怕马赫迪士兵会再次瞄準妇女权益活动家们,像在2007年和2008年他们在巴士拉曾做的那样。
He commands a militia known as the Mahdi Army that in the years after the toppling of Saddam Hussein battled ferociously against American, British and Iraqi government forces.
他控制着一支被称为「迈赫迪军」的民兵组织,只遏制武装在萨达姆·侯赛因统治结束之后的这几年与美国、英国和伊拉克政府的军队展开了激烈的斗争。
They supported the Iraqi army last March as it drove the Mahdi army out of Basra in an operation that ushered in relative safety to the city.
英军曾于上一年的3月支持过伊拉克军,那时,伊拉克军把马赫迪军赶出了巴士拉,当时伊拉克军是为求得该城市的相对安全才采取这次行动的。
Allawi, who was interim prime minister at the time, gave American and Iraqi troops the green light to take them out, killing dozens of Mahdi militiamen in the process.
为了把他们抓出来,当时的临时总理阿拉维给美国和伊拉克部队一路绿灯,这造成数十名什叶派民兵死亡。
He may also have to promise to lay off Mahdi Army.
他可能还得要保证遣散马赫迪军。
And down in Basra, what is poisoning the city is the violence and criminality of Jaish-al Mahdi and other groups-supported, financed and armed by elements of the Iranian regime.
在巴士拉,由迈赫迪军和其它集团制造的暴力和犯罪活动正毒害这座城市,而这些集团是由伊朗政权所支持、资助并武装的。
One reason is that the community「s main instrument of vengeance in 」06 and 「07 — Muqtada al-Sadr」s Mahdi Army — has been tamed.
一个原因是社团的重要复仇工具——萨迪尔的迈赫迪军,在06到07年间已经被收复。
Now everyone thinks of the Mahdi Army in a new light.
每个人都以一种新的眼光看待马赫迪军。
This is how we have been cleaning the Mahdi Army.
这就是我们一直以来如何清洁马赫迪军的。