New strategy: Creating doubts in Sistani’s credibility

As I said before, the report of the false Fatwa issued by Sis­tani meant to embar­rass the high Shi­ites insti­tu­tion Al-Hawza, with­out any details the Al-Arab Al-Youm reported that there is kind of unrest among Shi­ites about Sistani’s denial of issu­ing such Fatwa, but it seems the pres­sure con­tin­ues with another false report that Sis­tani rejects the U.S. — Iraq long pres­ence deal.

On their web­site, the Sadrists are con­cen­trat­ing indi­rectly on the role of the Hawza and the Shi­ites cler­ics [work­ing under Maliki’s umbrella] coop­er­a­tion with the Amer­i­can in the open­ing of a recon­struc­tion cen­ter in Kar­bala saying:

The Amer­i­cans invaded the holi­est Shi­ite city [Kar­bala] and opened an intel­li­gence and secu­rity cen­ter under the name recon­struc­tion in Karbal.

Reli­gious cler­ics asked Sis­tani to inter­vene to pre­vent the CIA from con­trol­ling the city of Hus­sein because they chal­lenge the Shi­ite and Islam.

This pol­icy of “cre­at­ing doubts in Sistani’s cred­i­bil­ity” is also used by Al-Fadhila Party, see this report on Al-Ghad newspaper:

Ismail Al-Wa’li [brother of Basra gov­er­nor] who is also a leader in Fad­hila Party accused Sistani’s son Moham­mad Ridha coop­er­at­ing with Maliki’s gov­ern­ment of steal­ing the oil and he is the who super­vis­ing the oil issue in oil ministry.