The battle of Basra..update
Aljazeera will broadcast an interview with Muqtada Al-Sadr tonight in his first appearance after he went to exile, from the short preview he said that he is supporting the Iraqi resistance. [I will try to report the live interview this evening], also, Aljazeera showed civilian victims of the American bombardment of Basra. [Aljazeera put this clip few minutes ago]
Sadrists website “nahrainnet“, reported that the army command issued a statement declares they are not committed to Maliki’s 72 hour truce, the website claim that this development is pressured by the Americans.
There are reports of the Iraqi government speeding up the recruiting process in the army and police forces because of the high level of deserters, army and police commands seized all mobile phones from their members so that they can not report the government losses.
Sadrists spokesman refused to handover their arms to the government saying as long as the occupation exists then we will keep our arms, Iraq-na reported that what going on is another way around; the army delivers its weapons to the Mahdi Army as you can see in the images in Sadr city.
in Iraq. A few days later, the Iraqi government goes to war against the Shi’ite militias, with the Iraqi president “personally” running the military operation. Literally a few days later now, we hear “it’s not going well”, Iraqi army desertion goingthrough the roof, US areas of Baghdad under major bombardment, and the basic power structure agreements that have kept multiple competing powerful forces in balance has just gone down the toilet. We don’t know the drivers behind this. There’s speculation
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Sadr didn’t say that he supports the resistance. Sadr asked the Arab League to support his “resistance”, i.e. the Mahdi army. It is quite different. The mahdi army has been fighting AGAINST the resistance for years (and viceversa) . The Mahdi army raped, tortured and mass murdered tons of innocent people. Al-Sadr’s militias ethnic cleansed the south of Iraq and Baghad, drilled half of the iraqi capital and forced hundreds of thousand of people to flee Iraq. The Mahdi army lynched the legitimate Iraqi president and the driller-in-chief was one of his executioners. Maliki is a criminal, but it was the sadrists that de facto installed him as PM. For years the sadrists run five ministries in Maliki’s government and i add that they were the worst of all the maliki’s ministries. The sadrist ministry of health murdered the sunni patients and their relatives, and many patients were shot in their bed. Of course i don’t support Maliki’s criminal and stupid operation against the Mahdi army, but the fact that Maliki attacked al-sadr’s militia didn’t turn the sadrist rapists and mass murderers into freedom fighters. Since a few time ago, Roads to iraq reported many of monstrous crimes by the mahdi army. Now seems that you changed your mind and you support the Mahdi army: no problem at all, but we cannot rewrite the history.
I am watching the interview right now and you are right Paola