I hope this article is the result of "Iraqi officials" messing with the New York Times:
After discussions with the Bush administration, several of Iraq’s major political parties are in talks to form a coalition whose aim is to break the powerful influence of the radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr within the government, senior Iraqi officials say.
The US wanting to form a new coalition - I can live with that. The idealist in me says that Iraqi politics should happen without international meddling, but I realise that isn't going to happen. Openly making it a specifically anti-Sadr coalition, though? That's just going to needlessly piss off Sadr and his followers. Worse, openly making it an American-backed anti-Sadr coalition. No way that'll energise the Shiite militias, is there?