Al-Sadr: Keep the resistance after my death, new organization “Divine Punishment”

An attempt to “make it good” with the Sadrists, Maliki invited Sadr Trend lead­ers for Ramadan din­ner, while Sadrists sym­pa­thizer web­site “World News Net” reported about unknown orga­ni­za­tion called “Divine Pun­ish­ment Brigades” dis­trib­uted leaflets in Bagh­dad promises to “divinely” pun­ish the gov­ern­ment offi­cials who sign the SOFA agree­ment with Americans:

We are watch­ing you daily, and inves­ti­gate every sin­gle devel­op­ment about the secu­rity agree­ment. We found that there are offi­cials in the gov­ern­ment are serv­ing the cru­saders Amer­i­can occu­pa­tion to sign this agree­ment as soon as pos­si­ble and we con­sider those as trai­tors deserve the just pun­ish­ment ordered by God. We gave a promise to our­selves to fol­low those inside Iraq or abroad to ful­fill this punishment.

A new state­ment issued by Muq­tada Al-Sadr asks his fol­low­ers not to give up resist­ing the occu­pa­tion even if he dies.

Al-Sadr was answer­ing back a nine points loy­alty state­ment addressed by “Al-Assaib” [the Mehdi Army sub-organization, spe­cial forces allowed to resist the occu­pa­tion] con­firms the group’s obe­di­ence, some of the impor­tant points are:

- Con­tinue the resis­tance as long as pos­si­ble, until lib­er­a­tion and vic­tory with the with­drawal of the occupation.

- Fol­low the mil­i­tary order as long as the mil­i­tary com­mand fol­lows the order from the cen­tral com­mand [Al-Sadr].

- Not to tar­get civil­ians ever and to harm the pub­lic, their inter­ests and pub­lic facilities.

- Not to allow the par­tic­i­pa­tion of any per­son in the resis­tance only through the rules stated by the cen­tral command.

Muq­tada Al-Sadr answered back:

Keep on your Jihad because it is your pride and glory to honor the faith and Islam and con­tinue the resis­tance even after the death of Muq­tada Al-Sadr.