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.
New strategy: Creating doubts in Sistani’s credibilityhttp://www.roadstoiraq.com/2008/05/25/new-strategy-creating-doubts-in-sistanis-credibility/
south or much of Baghdad without Shiite cooperation. Sistani still has a great deal of moral authority, and would be backed by less cautious clerics such as Muqtada al-Sadr and Ayatollah Jawad al-Khalisi. And the offtimes-unreliable pro-Sunni websiteRoads To Iraqsays that all of this is a campaign by anti-occupation Shiite groups to cast doubt upon the credibility of pro-occupation Sistani. Some analysts are saying that the debate seems to center around whether Sistani is issuing formal fatwahs or simply
in effect making this another direct challenge to Sistani and his Najaf colleagues, on the lines of the Haeri statement of last Wednesday which challenged them to take a clear stand against the proposed bilateral security agreement. In fact,one viewis that these events, and the AP story about armed resistance to the occupation, are part of a continuing series of challenges to Sistani and and the other Najaf authorities, the AP story being in effect a similar challenge, in that case to either
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