Not good

According to The New York Times, there is currently a radical Shi'a element that controls the Iraqi capital. Apparenty, a group of armed militia stormed the municipal building in Baghdad and deposed the mayor, installing a member of the Badr Organization. And from what I've read, these guys are serious business.

The militia has been credited with keeping the peace in heavily Shiite areas in southern Iraq but also accused of abuses like forcing women to wear the veils demanded by conservative Shiite religious law.

This cannot stand.