April 1 - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani says the Shia militia known as the Mehdi Army has stopped its activities on the orders of its leader, Moqtada al-Sadr.
April 3 - Matthew Dowd, chief strategist for George W. Bush's re-election campaign in 2004,[REF] told The New York Times that his son was about to be deployed to Iraq, and partly for that reason he now opposed U.S. policy there and backs a withdrawal.