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Mahdi army told to disarm

January 11, 2007 | By Sniper One |

This is huge. I can’t stress that enough. This is the Iraqi government standing up to the militias and saying “You will respect the rule of law, or you will be destroyed”.

Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, has told Shia fighters to surrender their weapons, as the US president announces plans to send thousands more troops to Iraq.

Al-Maliki agreed on Wednesday to crack down on fighters loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr, a Shia leader, Iraqi officials said.

In a televised speech on Wednesday, George Bush, the US president, promised to send 21,500 extra US troops to Iraq.

Bush said: “Prime minister al-Maliki has pledged that political or sectarian interference will not be tolerated.”

Al-Maliki had already announced on Saturday that his government would implement a new security plan for Baghdad, including neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood sweeps by Iraqi forces backed by US troops.

This is important in that this is the Iraqi’s putting this forth, and not (just) the Americans. As the president said last night…

Only Iraqis can end the sectarian violence and secure their people. And their government has put forward an aggressive plan to do it.

This planned is backed by the only people who can make any difference in Iraq, the Iraqis themselves.

 

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    1. “7.62mm Justice” ™ » Politicians For Iraqi Genocide on January 14, 2007 12:53

      [...] It is important to note that the President’s surge plan has the backing of the Iraqi government, and they have put all of the sectarian militias on notice. [...]

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