Sadrists suicide bombers, part of the region divide and unrest politics

At a time when Moq­tada al-Sadr, blessed a group of sup­port­ers ready to carry out sui­cide bomb­ings against “infi­del occu­pa­tion” Amer­i­can tar­gets in Iraq (image above), he did not give the green light to do so. Sadr responded, say­ing: .. Thank you dear beloved, God bless you.

This devel­op­ment comes as a change in the Sadrist’s tac­tics of resis­tance adopt­ing Al-Qaeda’s con­cept of sui­cide attacks. For the past eight years Al-Qaeda has monop­o­lized the sui­cide attacks by car bombs or sui­cide vests, the Shi­ite resis­tance was lim­ited to the use of usual arms usual, rock­ets and mor­tar shells aimed at some U.S. bases scat­tered around Iraq as well as the for­ti­fied Green Zone.

The above ques­tion from the sui­cide vol­un­teers released a week after a per­son inquired “Is it allowed to kill an Amer­i­can who par­tic­i­pated in the occu­pa­tion of Iraq?” (image above). Al-Sadr replied a “funny” answer:

Are you in a coma?

Ear­lier, Al-Sadr’s organ­ised an Anti-US demon­stra­tion as a show of power timed with the unrest in Syria, this time the ques­tion from the sui­cide bombers timed with Has­san Nas­ral­lah rev­e­la­tion that the CIA infil­trated Hezbol­lah (a first time direct con­fronta­tion between Hezbol­lah and the CIA).

Even Muq­tada Al-Sadr’s “sud­den” rela­tion improve­ment with Maliki as reported by Al-Sharq Al-Awsat is a tac­ti­cal alliance and part of the regional polit­i­cal game to keep the Shi­ite (or the “Shi­ite cres­cent” if we include Syria) intact. Here is Al-Khuzaie who is very close to Maliki say­ing: “We will never allow the [Sunni] Islamiza­tion of Syria”.

Yet, there is no hon­ey­moon (as reported by some news­pa­pers) between Al-Sadr and Maliki, here is (image below) a ques­tion from one of Muq­tada Al-Sadr’s sup­port­ers ask­ing about the pres­sure on the Sadrists gov­ern­ment employ­ees to par­tic­i­pate in the demon­stra­tion for the sup­port of the Maliki’s gov­ern­ment, and Al-Sadr’s answer is very clear, reject­ing any sup­port for Maliki:

Beware of [par­tic­i­pat­ing] in build­ing a new dic­ta­tor­ship, or a State based on indif­fer­ence and secret reports …

But, what Muq­tada Al-Sadr is really try­ing to protect?