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.

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  1. paola pisi March 29th, 2008

    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.
  2. LadyBird March 29th, 2008

    I am watch­ing the inter­view right now and you are right Paola

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