In other news from Iraq, Iraq’s health minister has been arrested as part of the new U.S.-Iraqi crackdown on Baghdad. The minister, Hakem al-Zamili, is part of anti-occupation Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s political bloc. Military officials say Zamili helped move weapons using Iraqi ambulances. Sadr’s group says the U.S. military is trying to provoke confrontation.