Sadr to accept the US presence in Iraq! Syria is toying with the Americans

After less than a day since he released his state­ment vowed that Iraq to become a grave­yard for Amer­i­cans, Muq­tada Al-Sadr changed his posi­tion to accept the pres­ence of the US troops in Iraq.

Sadrist leader in the Iraqi par­lia­ment said that there is no objec­tion of his move­ment in the pres­ence of part of the U.S. Spe­cial Forces for train­ing the Iraqi forces after 2011.

The state­ment is a sig­nif­i­cant shift in the posi­tion of the Sadrists Move­ment, Amir Al-Kinani added that the pres­ence of the US forces should be on the basis of a bilat­eral agree­ment between the Iraqi Min­istry of Defense and its US coun­ter­part, and not as part of the sign­ing a treaty between Bagh­dad and Washington.

Con­fus­ing and con­tra­dict­ing mes­sages, expressed by Al-Iraqiya MP Mah­m­mod Al-Khalidi:

Yes­ter­day Al-Sadr declared that he will not lift the freeze on the Mehdi Army, even with the extend of the U.S. troops pres­ence in Iraq, and and today he declared that he will make Iraq a grave­yard for the Amer­i­cans, we and Iraqi peo­ple are totally confused.

As this report: What Is Sadr’s Game on Future U.S. Troop Pres­ence?, peo­ple need to see the big regional pic­ture to under­stand Sadr’s dou­ble positions.

The Syr­ian regime, which mas­tered the game of walk­ing between the red lines ben­e­fited from the visit of the U.S. Sec­re­tary of Defense to Bagh­dad and its impor­tance for the U.S. admin­is­tra­tion on the fate of the US mil­i­tary forces in Iraq.

A very clear link can be seen between the rock­ets hit the Green Zone dur­ing Panetta’s offi­cial visit to Iraq, shows that the Syr­ian role in Iraq is not over yet. There­fore, Syria will face the US pres­sure by deploy­ing the “Iraqi street” against the Amer­i­cans, which is pos­si­ble, espe­cially if Syria and Iran coop­er­ates with Muqatada Al-Sadr to threat the extend of the US pres­ence Iraq.

Tak­ing the story fur­ther to Lebanon, the kid­napped Esto­ni­ans already revealed that they were held in Syria, secu­rity sources told Lebanese news­pa­per Al-Liwaa that the kid­nap­pers threat­ened to hand over the hostages to ter­ror­ist groups in Iraq.

Lebanese news­pa­per Al-Nahar con­nects few dots say­ing that the release of the Esto­ni­ans is a Syr­ian friendly ges­ture to the Euro­pean Union show­ing the Syr­ian sig­nif­i­cant role in the region. At the same time the Sadrists in Iraq announce they will allow part of the US troops to extend their pres­ence in Iraq (as a Syr­ian friendly ges­ture to the US!!!).