Iraq Denies Plans To “Liquidate And Slaughter” Remaining Radical Sadrists
Well, many of us worried about seeing this actual day coming, but it’s looking like Al Sadr has been almost entirely de-nutted..
Baghdad, Mar 21, (VOI)- Parliamentarians from the Dawa Party and the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) on Friday denied planning to liquidate and slaughter Sadrists, asserting that measures taken by the security apparatuses are not being directed against anyone not attacking government and U.S. forces.
Sheikh Jalal el-Din al-Sagheer from the SIIC denied any plans to liquidate Sadrists, saying “I completely deny these reports.”
“We have no interest in attacking anyone and these blocs have a great effect on the Iraqi society,” Sheikh al-Sagheer told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq (VOI) by phone.
“There is a difference between accusations and measures taken by the government against outlaws,” he added.
“There are two kinds of Sadrists; one of them wants to cooperate to achieve justice and we will work with this kind to boost security authorities,” the SIIC MP added.
“The other kind wants to cause problems, because they can not live in a peaceful atmosphere,” he said.
For her part, Nada al-Sudani, legislator from Dawa party, told VOI over the phone, “security measures taken in the provinces are not directed against any body.”
Ahmed al-Massoudi, a legislator from the Sadrist bloc, or Iraqis loyal to Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr, had accused earlier the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, his Dawa Party and the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) of planning a military campaign to liquidate the Sadrists in Babel province.
“Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim’s “SIIC and the Dawa Party have held meetings with officers of the militias merged recently into security agencies to launch a military campaign outwardly to impose order and law but the real objective is to liquidate the Sadrist bloc,” he added.
“Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is directly supervising this scheme with officers from the Dawa Party and the SIIC,” he noted.
Massoudi warned that the Sadrists would be targeted in Babel just like they were targeted in the provinces of Diwaniya, Kut and Karbala.
The Sadrists in the Iraqi parliament have 30 seats, in addition to two deputies representing the bloc’s Risalyoun list, out of a total 275 seats.
The Sadrists entered parliament within the Shiite Unified Iraqi Coalition (UIC) during the legislative elections held by the end of 2005. They, however, withdrew from the UIC in mid-September 2007 due to what they described as “the insistence of some parties inside the bloc to marginalize the Sadrists.”
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The first time I heard the name Muqtada al-Sadr and what he was all about, my gut instinct was that this guy needed to be put into the ground for the sake of all concerned.
Now that Iraqi political parties denied they were planning to whack him, should tell Mouki (Muqtada al-Sadr) that they were thinking about it!
Let’s hope Mouki is bright enough to figure that out and realize he’s never, ever going to be the “Supreme Leader” of Iraq.
March 21st, 2008 at 10:01 pminteresting….. interesting……. situation always evolving…..
notice the FAL in the background?
March 21st, 2008 at 10:18 pmIt’s an HK G3. Germany sold a ton to Iran.
March 22nd, 2008 at 2:23 amG3 on left of posters, FAL on the right.
March 22nd, 2008 at 3:28 amNow how could Iranian weapons be ending up in Iraq?
March 22nd, 2008 at 3:36 amBremer should have had his ass whacked back when he was nothing more than a troublemaker trying to get attention in April of 04.
Big mistake Ambassador.
March 22nd, 2008 at 9:18 am“Liquidate and slaughter.” Sounds like a plan, to me.
Sadrists now have NOTHING to offer, if they ever did.
March 22nd, 2008 at 11:09 amSadrist were responsible for the IED that took my son. And I fully believe Iranian weapons were used. Liquidate and slaughter sounds like a wonderful plan to me. And not just the Sadrist.. Iranian leaders too. I somehow think the people of Iran are as fed up with them as we are and would invite the help. I know for a fact the Iraqis are turning on the Sadrist. The seeds are planted.. we need to help them take root and bloom.
March 22nd, 2008 at 12:16 pmPat Dollard
Now how could Iranian weapons be ending up in Iraq?
mike3481
because they washed off the Iraqi Mustard Gas after they picked them up off the battlefield…just a hunch.
March 22nd, 2008 at 3:11 pm