The death toll from the Iraqi government’s attack on Shiite militias in Basra and Baghdad has reached at least 460, according to Agence France-Presse. More than 1,100 people were injured. While calm has returned to the streets of Basra, analysts say the US-backed Iraqi crackdown has largely backfired. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki vowed to crush the militias in Basra, but militias linked to Muqtada al-Sadr still control most of the city. The fighting also exposed the weakness of Iraq’s army and the growing rift in Iraq’s Shiite majority.