Since the toppling of Saddam Hussein , American officials tried unsuccessfully to disband Iraq 's myriad private armies , from Kurdish pesh merga in the mountainous north to the black-clad Mahdi Army patrolling poor Shiite enclaves in Baghdad and Basra .
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