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From YARGB:
Omar at Iraq the Model has a report that I haven't seen in the US press. I wonder if this ties to the fatwa signed down in Mecca on Friday. I thought that one interpretation of the fatwa could be that it was a hunting license for Sadrists. Omar seems to be hinting at that interpretation through his locating the air strikes as occurring in Sadr city.
This story, from Canoe News out of Canada, only complicates the story. One of the targets was, apparently, a TV network with ties to al-Maliki himself.
Ah, the Byzantine world of Islamic politics.
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Airstrikes In Baghdad: Are American Armed Forces Set To Destroy The Mahdi Army?
From YARGB:
Omar at Iraq the Model has a report that I haven't seen in the US press. I wonder if this ties to the fatwa signed down in Mecca on Friday. I thought that one interpretation of the fatwa could be that it was a hunting license for Sadrists. Omar seems to be hinting at that interpretation through his locating the air strikes as occurring in Sadr city.
This story, from Canoe News out of Canada, only complicates the story. One of the targets was, apparently, a TV network with ties to al-Maliki himself.
Ah, the Byzantine world of Islamic politics.
- Mahdi Army Surrenders - Authorizes Iraqi Government To Disarm Fighters
From the Stratas-Sphere: It seems the Mahdi Army in Sadr City has surrendered - completely: Followers of rebel cleric Muqtada al Sadr agreed late Friday to allow Iraqi security forces to enter all of Baghdad’s Sadr City and to arrest anyone found with...
- Iran Confirms It Brokered Truce Between Iraq And Sadr
What was that Newt Gingrich said, in the video below, about us being in a "phoney war"? From Pat Dollard: TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Officials in Iran confirmed for the first time Saturday that the country played an important role in brokering a recent truce...
- Why Would The Iranians Broker A Cease Fire For Iraq Vs Muqtadr?
USA TODAY: BAGHDAD -- Iranian officials helped broker a cease-fire agreement Sunday between Iraq's government and radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, according to Iraqi lawmakers. The deal could help defuse a wave of violence that had threatened...
- It's Gettyburg - Maliki Needs To Crush Utterly The Mahdi Army Now
Now that Al Qaeda in Iraq has been obliterated, it is essential for the growth and security of Iraq, and for it's national identity against Iran, that the Mahdi army be destroyed. War is politics by other means, and the results of the...
- Al-maliki Wakes Up With A Horse's Head In His Bed
Yesterday, we brought the story of airstrikes in Baghdad, striking at Sadr City, and at a TV station with ties to Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki himself. Today, we were treated to two press conferences; one at which George Bush seemed to be sending a...