Bush Whitehouse and al-Maliki Government Drift Apart
W (worst ever) has been loudly urging the Iraq government to isolate the radical cleric Muktar al-Sadr who is violently anti-American and who has been calling for the immediate withdrawal of all American forces from Iraq. Well, yesterday he got his answer.
“The Sadr movement is part of Iraqi affairs,” said Haider Abadi, a leader of Shiite Prime Minister Nouri Maliki’s Islamic Dawa Party. “We won’t allow others to interfere to weaken any Iraqi political movement.”
The U.S. recently labeled Sadr’s militia the top terrorist threat in Iraq. It was involved in clashes with police Friday and Saturday in the southern city of Samawah in which police said five people were killed. Shiite moderates have been trying to build a new coalition with Kurds and Sunni Arabs that would sideline Sadr. Click here to read more about W (worst ever)’s problems.