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  • All it takes is for one of the major Shia militias (the Badr Brigades or the Mahdists) to remove support and Iraq plunges back into abject chaos.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 10, 2010 2010

  • With TR, he judges that British rule was the last bastion of civilization standing militant against Mahdists, Arab nationalists and " savage " Africans.

    Bull Moose In Twilight Kathleen Dalton 2010

  • The end of history would come early in the twenty-first century, according to the Mahdists, and Hezbollah would lead the first wave of the final battle.

    A Privilege to Die Thanassis Cambanis 2010

  • Many of these carry swords and the Mahdists often used to organise their swordsmen into units more on this shortly.

    Archive 2009-08-01 legatus hedlius 2009

  • Many of these carry swords and the Mahdists often used to organise their swordsmen into units more on this shortly.

    Sudanese Kaskara Swords legatus hedlius 2009

  • Beggarly regions invite warlords with piratical ambitions and hallucinatory visions such as the Goths for Rome, the Mahdists for Britain, and the jihadists for us.

    Batchelor Fodder: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

  • We also came to the realization that the Queen's forces had to win the first round of melee and repulse the Mahdists, a high probability, or face certain destruction in the subsequent rounds of melee against overwhelming numbers.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Der Alte Fritz 2008

  • We also came to the realization that the Queen's forces had to win the first round of melee and repulse the Mahdists, a high probability, or face certain destruction in the subsequent rounds of melee against overwhelming numbers.

    Return to the Sudan Der Alte Fritz 2008

  • Although the Mahdists are controlled by dice, chart and cards, they fight even better and cause the Imperial force more trouble than most human commanders can manage.

    Return to the Sudan Der Alte Fritz 2008

  • Business will emerge from the bottom up and doctors, teachers and merchants start to move back from Amman and Damascus, once they hear that their old homes are safe and the Mahdists and Badrists are confined to barracks.

    Simon Jenkins: An Anniversary, Not a Celebration 2008

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