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  • Iraq: Political Parties Consider Uniting Against Al-Sadr

    12/15/2006 9:00:33 AM PST · by TexKat · 48 replies · 1,470+ views
    Radio Free Europe ^ | December 15, 2006 | Sumedha Senanayake
    December 15, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- The decision by radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to pull his political bloc out of the Iraqi government to protest Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's decision to meet with U.S. President George W. Bush on November 30 has brought the Iraqi political process to a virtual standstill. Major Iraqi political parties have now engaged in behind-the-scenes talks to form a new political alliance to help break the impasse. The Iraqi daily "Al-Azzam" reported on December 12 that the main Shi'ite party in Iraq, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), has been in...
  • Iraq Militant Vows 'Peaceful Resistance' (More Sadr B.S.)

    07/05/2004 10:28:25 AM PDT · by ApesForEvolution · 14 replies · 405+ views
    AP via Yahoo News ^ | Monday, July 5th, 2004 | By NADIA ABOU EL-MAGD, Associated Press Writer
    BAGHDAD, Iraq - The spokesman for militant Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr tempered threats to continue fighting Monday, saying his movement only planned to wage "peaceful resistance" against the interim government. Al-Sadr issued a statement Sunday from his office in the Shiite holy city of Najaf calling the new interim Iraqi government "illegitimate" and pledging "to continue resisting oppression and occupation to our last drop of blood." But Sadr's spokesman in Baghdad, Mahmoud al-Soudani, called a news conference Monday to clarify that the statement was not a call to arms. He said that many of al-Sadr's supporters in Baghdad had begun...