The Command Post still has nothing on this, but Fox is reporting that Kuwaiti and Iranian news sources are describing an uprising in east Baghdad and Basra of Shia civilians agains the regime.

I don’t have any sympathy for the Fedayeen and Ba’athist officials who will no doubt meet their well-deserved fates here, but I suspect their end will be much nastier than if they’d simply been killed by coalition forces. And hopefully many of the foreigner jihadis will meet a timely denouement as well.

[Update at 8:50 PDT]

Here’s a link to the story from the Kuwaiti news agency.