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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Apparently we're waiting for Iraq's Interior Ministry to hire more dispatchers like this one so that we can withdraw our troops without a civil war:

• Saleh Muhammed, an Amiriyah resident, told a Post special correspondent that he dialed 130 into his cellphone, Baghdad's emergency number. "The Mahdi Army has attacked Amiriyah," he told the Interior Ministry dispatcher.
  
  "The Mahdi Army are not terrorists like you," said the dispatcher at the ministry, which is controlled by a Shiite party and operates closely with militias. "They are people doing their duty. And how could you know that they are the Mahdi Army? Is it written on their foreheads?" He hung up the phone.

WaPo

Maybe he wasjoking. Even if not, do we know if any negative consequence resulted? Did anyone die as a result?