Al-Dhari hints: Truce and cooperation with Muqtada Al-Sadr

Some­thing remark­able hap­pened dur­ing AMSI 1st con­fer­ence in Syria but it was never reported by the media, not even the Arab media.

Bet­ter late than never, at last AMSI Sec­re­tary Gen­eral Harith Al-Dhari offered truce and hints of readi­ness to coop­er­ate with Muq­tada Al-Sadr.

There is no tran­script of his speech, not even in Ara­bic, but I man­aged to obtain a short clip [2,67mb, 1,37 min­utes, wmv] of Al-Dhari’s speech at the con­fer­ence say­ing [I wrote the tran­script in Ara­bic, click on the image to enlarge]:

Some Say that this gov­ern­ment [Maliki’s gov­ern­ment] back­tracked from its sec­tarism by strik­ing the Sadrists Trend, to bal­ance the strikes on the Sadirsts and the Sun­nis in some areas.

And we say: This is a smoke­screen, it is still the same sec­tar­ian gov­ern­ment, and the strikes on the al-Sadr Trend hap­pened because the Trend is form­ing a big pres­sure on the gov­ern­ment, and becomes a strong com­peti­tor in the upcom­ing elections.

This is the desire of some for­eign inter­fer­ence from here and there who wants to mar­gin­al­ize this Trend, because in the [Sadrists] Trend there are patri­ots who do not want to divide Iraq and oppose the occu­pa­tion forces. There­fore, this Trend had been attacked, despite that some of the igno­rants , out­laws who has been paid to do against their broth­ers in prior periods.

As you see, Al-Dhari offered truce and tried to reach the Sadrists by blam­ing “the oth­ers” who infil­trated the Mahdi Army on the sec­tar­ian violence.

Still there is no com­ments about this on the AMSI web­site but sooner or later, some infor­ma­tion will be show up, and I think right now there are some kind of nego­ti­a­tions between AMSI and the Sadrists in Syria.

As a reminder since 2003 [the occu­pa­tion] until 2006, Sadrists and AMSi were allies, sui­cide bombs against the Shi­ites made them enemies.

More details about the con­fer­ence on the Miss­ing Links.