Iraqi's Protest Israel's Actions

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BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 14 — The radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr said Friday that Iraqis would not “sit by with folded hands” while Israel struck at Lebanon, signaling a possible increase in attacks from his mercurial militia, the Mahdi Army.

In a written statement, Mr. Sadr also said that he considered the United States culpable in the conflict unfolding in Lebanon, since America is the largest foreign ally of Israel.

Mr. Sadr’s statement was issued at a time of rising tensions between the American military and the Mahdi Army, with American forces carrying out raids against Mahdi hideouts and arresting senior leaders.

American commanders have strongly denounced militias in recent days and have pledged to try to curtail the militias’ death squads, which they say are feeding the spiraling cycles of sectarian violence. Many Sunni Arabs blame the Sadr militia for abductions and killings, including an episode on July 9 in which militiamen seized up to dozens of Sunni Arabs in the Jihad neighborhood of Baghdad and shot them in the head.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/15/world/middleeast/15iraq.html?hp&ex=1152936000&en=c156743c02fb6ca5&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[whistle]

1. Now that Iraq is free, they can join any side they wish, right?

[im10ashus]

2. Time will tell, I suppose.

:shrug:

But this HAS to stick in the crawl of Rummy et al.

[Poll_Blind]

3. Oh oh, time for regime change- oh, wait...oh, lol! n/t

PB

[im10ashus]

4. LOL!

Theirs or ours?

:rofl:

[Poll_Blind]

5. Hell, can I order one from Column A AND one from Column B? (grin) n/t

PB