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Annie

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This week not so good newsy. They do not like the way the Najaf mess is being handled. Well, no d'oh. Politicians should really stay out of these kind of details.

http://www.soundfury.us/archives/000537.html

Lots more, this is an EXCERPT:

This week: the continued mishandling of Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraq the Model for Congress, and the Iraqi Olympic soccer team.

Zeyad is quite pessimistic over the al-Sadr circus.

I'am afraid to admit that most of my misgivings on the outcome of the recent military confontation with Sadr have turned out to be well-founded. The interim Iraqi government suddenly softened its approach, in large due to internal divisions, and now appears to be in a weaker position than that of Sadr.
Just a few days ago they were threatening the 'scoundrels' and 'criminals' with eradication if they did not disarm and surrender. Now, 'our brother Muqtada' will not be arrested if he leaves Najaf, and he still has the choice to particpate in the government and turn the Sadrist movement into a 'political' one, while Sadr calls them 'dictators' and offers outrageous conditions for a truce.

Negotiations continue, bringing back to mind the situation in May, allowing Al-Mahdi to regroup and stockpile ammunition and weapons to fight another day. Al-Sadr might as well announce his victory Saddam-style since he is still alive and negotiating despite his military defeat. Now he wants Najaf to turn into a 'Hawzawi protectorate' with Al-Mahdi in control, joining Fallujah, Sammara, and Sadr city as an independent safehaven for insurgents with its own local
government, Sharia laws, and private courts and prisons. And the interim government is offering him that opportunity, sealing its own fate in the process.


This paragraph is particularly unpleasant:

Allawi's 'emergency laws' are a joke. They might look good on paper, but who is to enforce them? Allwai says it's not time yet to implement them. Not when IP and ING's desert and swear allegiance to Al-Mahdi in Ammara and Basrah. Not when Al-Mahdi have taken over governmental offices and IP stations in Nasiriya and Diwaniya. Not when they have checkpoints and patrols using IP vehicles in Sadr city. Not when they declare their own emergency laws and a curfew in Baghdad. Not when they are lobbing mortars daily at Iraqi ministries and residential areas. Not when they can hold anyone hostage and force Iraqi officials to resign. Not when they can control the flow of oil through pipelines from the south. Not when Muqtada is al-sayyed al-qa'id. And certainly not when Allawi is just the local mayor of the Green Zone.
S.O.S.


Look. I understand the niceties of the "containment" talk with respect to al-Sadr. But negotiations confer legitimacy, when, as Ays at Iraq at a Glance points out, this guy should have been liquidated some time ago:

As usual he begins with a fierce look of a crazy monster and ends with a soft tone saying that he’s ready for negotiations, and here is the dangerous point, the government MUST arrest him and his followers to put an end to all his crap, it’s enough… His friends are ready to supply him again, and after few weeks another fight comes out. Mr.Allawi must finish what he’s begun, those are very dangerous criminals..and we will never live in peace as long as they are free. AlNajaf police officer said that they arrested one of the fighters of AlMahdi militia and he is a very dangerous man, he is the responsible of kidnapping the IP members and he was cutting off their heads and some of the bodies were cut into pieces and burnt..just imagine such monsters are protected by AlSadr and free to hike in the streets.
It is not democracy to let all those who put the wheels on the heads behave as they like, this is chaos, the government must assert that nobody is above the law, and when law talks all the wheels must be put aside!


Ays also translates part of a chilling article from an Iraqi newspaper:

I scanned this part of a new newspaper called Manarat a weekly independent newspaper, it says that there are 51000 (51 thousand) Iranian ready to enter Iraq to carry out suicide operations to defend Islam! The reporter got these news from an Iranian daily newspaper called ( Hashri)…
The reporter mentions that day by day the Iranian role in destroying Iraq comes out, and their role in the direct attacks against the American forces appear to make them preoccupied in the situation in Iraq and forget Iran..
What the hell is going on? Somebody stop those crazy people and their mean government..
(Let’s say that only 100 of those Iranians might enter the borders, and they CAN as you hear from the Minister of Defense about all those Iranians in Iraq, what will happen here? They will kill thousands).
 

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