First, good find by the “Missing Link” about the unreported American bombing of Sadr-city today, for the people who are troubled with reports saying “tribes in Basra show their support to Maliki”, Al-Maliki tribe is from Basra, so guess who are the tribes supporting Al-Maliki? [listen to the audio]
Hard to swallow his defeat and as usual he started to blame the Ba’athists, Maliki was very angry today in his press conference today, the most interesting thing he is still using the same threat language against the Sadrists [he uses the word many times].
After claiming victory with cleaning Basra from the “criminals”, he said that military operations will continue in the of Baghdad’s suburbs that still controlled by the Sadrists, the most interesting part [at minute 13,00] he says:
The armed forces discovered heavy weapons, long-range missiles and implemented bombs by the oil wells, these are the Baathists practices who already did this in Kuwait’s oil wells in 1990.
He calls on Al-Sadr to clean his trend from the Baathists who are trying to return by hijacking other factions.
Now, what is going to happened next, we will see that at 9 April.
Seems that al-Sadr agrees with Maliki on this point (and many others) .
“And if the government cannot make infiltrators and other Baathists, terrorists, militias of parties and saboteurs surrender, we are ready to cooperate with [the government] to cleanse our army and police of them. Let the government and people be one to liberate Iraq of the occupier.”, Moqtada el Libertador said, from Qom, Iran.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/04/03/iraq.alsadr/index.html?section=cnn_latest
Therefore we can celebrate, Iraq will be free soon. The (other) US-iranian puppets and Moqtada will free her! And maybe the “nationalist anti-occupation leader” “Sayyed” Moqtada al-Sadr will return to Iraq, with the Iranian flag in one hand and the drill in the other.
By the way, the iraqi resistance group JAAMI ( Iraqi Islamic Resistance Front ) issued a statement saying that the Mahdi army has always been and still is “one of the worst enemies” of the iraqi resistance:
http://www.iraqirabita.org/index3.php?do=article&id=13301