Battle of Al Kut
| Battle of Al Kut | |||||
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| Part of Iraq War | |||||
.jpg) Areas of Responsibility in Iraq as of 30 April 2004 |
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| Belligerents | |||||
 United States Ukraine
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 Mahdi Army
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||
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Sergiy Bezlushchenko
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Muqtada al-Sadr
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 5th Mechanized Brigade
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Rebel fighters |
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| Casualties and losses | |||||
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Killed: 1 Wounded: 6 |
Killed: 180-200 | ||||
The Battle of Al Kut was a coordinated Iraqi uprising, launched near the beginning of the Iraq War by Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
In April 2004, followers of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr launched a well-coordinated uprising across southern Iraq. While Western media focused on events in Sadr City, Najaf, and Karbala, violence occurred elsewhere as well. A Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) source forwarded the following after-action report regarding violence in the town of Al-Kut, the capital of the Wassit Governorate and home to the Ukrainian contingent.
The unclassified report, written by a coalition security contractor, highlights dysfunction between regional coalition offices and the Coalition Provisional Authority headquarters in Baghdad, as well as tension between diplomats and security officers. The summary faulted a British diplomat who had "toned down" reports of Islamist activity so as not to alarm superiors in Baghdad. The report gave a minute-by-minute update of the battle.
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