Muqtada Al-Sadr reacts

As always, I am few steps ahead of others!

Muq­tada Al-Sadr released a state­ment (image above) in reac­tion to the last explo­sion campaign.

This [bomb­ing cam­paign] shows the con­tempt of the ter­ror­ists and their col­lab­o­ra­tion with the occu­pier in order to give it the argu­ment to stop the alleged with­drawal, coop­er­at­ing with the state­ments released by the gov­ern­ment giv­ing rea­son for the occu­piers to stay for more than ten years.

The gov­ern­ment is arro­gant, silent and sat­is­fied with the bomb­ings, adher­ing to gov­ern­ment posi­tions, despis­ing the blood of the Iraqi peo­ple. The Iraqi peo­ple have become home­less, with­out water, and elec­tric­ity … The occu­piers enjoys Iraq’s ter­ri­tory, and government’s offi­cials behind the green walls [Green Zone] enjoy its electricity.

Sadrist leader Al-Araji com­mented on the above state­ment saying:

The secu­rity vac­uum in Iraq and to bring the pri­vate secu­rity com­pa­nies to Iraqi ter­ri­tory is a renewed game by the Amer­i­can troops to pass a lot of issues that were not disclosed.

Few notes on the above:

It is very clear that Muq­tada Al-Sadr doubts the U.S. with­drawal, in fact, one of his con­di­tions to form a coali­tion with Allawi is that Al-Iraqiya should announce it’s rejec­tion to the remain­ing U.S. forces.

Since Syria coop­er­at­ing with Turkey and Saudi Ara­bia) will hold Iraq con­fer­ence after Ramad­han, and Maliki is not invited (unless he apol­o­gizes to Syria, just like Syria humil­i­ated Lebanese leader Jun­blatt with the apol­ogy). The Sadrists role in the con­fer­ence (hence … com­ing gov­ern­ment) depends on how the U.S. will play nice with Syria.