Sadrists and Iraqi government reached an agreement in Basra…update…Mahdi Army keeps the arms
……Update….
Press conference on Iraqi TV right now by the Sadrists, they insist that Mahdi Army still keeps its arms and will not hand them over to the government. [when he said this TV cuts the broadcast]
The Iraqi government sent a delegation [from Badr Brigade, Al-Adib and Al-Amri] to Qom - Iran to negotiate Al-Sadr before the truce declaration, notice the Al-Sadr demands are the same and the government accepted them. [even before the violence started their demands are to stop the raids, to end the arrests of the Sadrists].
……End update…..
After the killing of Maliki’s security adviser “Hassan Al-Kadhmi” by Mahdi Army in Basra today and according to Wasat Online, the Iraqi government and the Sadrists reached an agreement of nine points [Image if the Al-Sadr statement including the 9 points], no details reported about the details of these points [that will be expected in the coming 2 hours in an official statement], the newspaper says that among the points is the withdrawal of the Iraqi and American forces from Basra, stop the raids against the Sadrists, Maliki to return to Baghdad in 48 hour followed by the ministers [Defense and Interior].
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