On the one hand, the US military is probably hesitant to attack al-Sadr and his fighters in the shrine in Najaf -- the most important shrine in Shiite Islam. However, there's an additional motivation: the Shrines in Islam are sites of pilgrammage, and those who control the Shrine also collect pilgrammage taxes.
After the fall of Saaddam, struggle for control of the shrine broke out, and now, al-Sadr controls the shrine in Najaf, and surely he wants to keep it that way. So, taking the shrine away from al-Sadr threatens his long-term and lucrative income.
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