Update on the fighting in Basra

The sit­u­a­tion right now has noth­ing to do with “Iraqi gov­ern­ment” or “Iraqi Army”, it is a Shiite-Shiite war, Mahdi Army with prim­i­tive arms and “Supreme Coun­cil of the Islamic Rev­o­lu­tion” [formed by Iran] with an army and sup­ported by the Americans.

Remem­ber the so called Iraqi gov­ern­ment can not start this cam­paign with­out tak­ing accord from Iran and the U.S., I told about the there is some kind of agree­ment between [The U.S. and Iran] few posts before.

Just few hours ago the Sadrists issued a new state­ment, signed by Al-Sadr him­self and it says an ini­tia­tive for peace con­tains six points:

- To dis­trib­ute Quran and olive branches on police and army check points, and ask the secu­rity forces to not involve in this fight­ing trick used by the occupation.

- All the polit­i­cal, social and reli­gious fig­ures to take their respon­si­bil­i­ties to stop these attacks

- Tribal chiefs to not to be involved in the fight­ing and to remem­ber that they are the grand­sons of 1920 revolution

- Iraqi par­lia­ment to stand beside the Iraqi peo­ple who chose them

- Polit­i­cal Par­ties to be beside the Iraqi pub­lic and not beside the occupation

- Call for all Iraqis to demon­strate, the next step is pub­lic dis­obe­di­ence, as for the third step then it will be announced in later time.

As for the last point [the pub­lic dis­obe­di­ence], the gov­ern­ment announced that dis­obe­di­ence will be charged with ter­ror­ism law, the Sadrists rep­re­sen­ta­tives in the par­lia­ment announced they will start the pro­ce­dures to with­draw their con­fi­dence in Maliki if this law put in practice.

The fights

Mahdi Army start to attack Badr and SCIR offices in Bagh­dad [the media reported that the attacks are in Sadr city only but accord­ing to my mother the attacks are every­where at least in Risafah part of Bagh­dad].

Mahdi Army man­aged to con­trol few neigh­bor­hoods in Kut city, Al-Mahmoudiya, Al-Yousfiyah.