skippy the bush kangaroo

Saturday, April 19, 2008

you read it here second

because you probably read it on newshoggers first:

just breaking is the news that muqtada al-sadr has threatened to end his movement's ceasefire, unless the maliki government and us military end their crackdown, in a statement posted to his website.

the cleric says he is giving his final warning to the iraqi government to stop working with the u.s. military against him or he will "declare an open war until liberation."

the threat to lift a more than 7-month-old cease-fire comes amid fighting between al-sadr's mahdi army militia and u.s.-iraqi troops in baghdad's sadr city and the southern city of basra.
that would also mean that sadr would have to give up any attempts to remain a part of the political process, as general petraeus recently hoped he would. given all that has gone before, including maliki's promise to sideline sadr politically if he didn't disband the mahdi army, i don't see maliki backing down, so...

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1 Comments:

im sure this is all somehow very good news.
commented by Anonymous JasonC, 10:28 AM PDT  

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