Firstly, both Ghassan bin Jidu (the interviewer) and Sadr are clearly misleading the Arab world with their talk of the great Sadr 'victory' that has shocked and surprised many monitoring Iraq's elections. Nibras explains why here.
At 20:32 Moqtada makes an astonishing admission. Bin Jidu asks him about the hostility and gulf that exists between him and Maliki and part of the reply is "I told the former Prime Minister... Dr Ibrahim al-Ja'afari, I told him you can win the Sadr Movement with just a little [in return] and they will be under your banner - and it was."
I had always suspected Ibrahim al-Ja'fari shook hands with the devil when he managed to get the votes of the Sadr Movement to defeat his challenger Abdul Mehdi in the contest for the Prime Ministerial seat in 2005 but this is the first time I have heard Moqtada explicitly admit that his movement was 'under the banner' of Ibrahim al-Jafari. Only time will tell what exactly it was Ja'fari offered Moqtada in return for his friendship. What ever the agreement was, clearly it was something that Maliki did not want to honour.
At 20:32 Moqtada makes an astonishing admission. Bin Jidu asks him about the hostility and gulf that exists between him and Maliki and part of the reply is "I told the former Prime Minister... Dr Ibrahim al-Ja'afari, I told him you can win the Sadr Movement with just a little [in return] and they will be under your banner - and it was."
I had always suspected Ibrahim al-Ja'fari shook hands with the devil when he managed to get the votes of the Sadr Movement to defeat his challenger Abdul Mehdi in the contest for the Prime Ministerial seat in 2005 but this is the first time I have heard Moqtada explicitly admit that his movement was 'under the banner' of Ibrahim al-Jafari. Only time will tell what exactly it was Ja'fari offered Moqtada in return for his friendship. What ever the agreement was, clearly it was something that Maliki did not want to honour.
The other interesting admission was with regards to US forces in Iraq and the SOFA. In the beginning of the interview Moqtada dispels any doubts people had with regards to whether or not he has officially laid down his arms as he makes it clear he is still involved in armed resistance against the Americans. The worrying point however is that he may not just be talking about the military. At 43:37 he declares "we do not believe Iraq has been liberated by the agreement [SOFA], we believe Iraq will be liberated when the last soldier leaves Iraqi soil... and military bases, not just the soldiers... soldiers, and companies, and intelligence agencies, if they all leave Iraq will be liberated, until then Iraq lacks sovereignty and it lacks independence"
I can only hope that when he mentions 'companies' he is referring to security companies and not commercial companies. If the latter then we are never going to get real peace in Iraq so long as he lives. If he wants every American company to be banned from doing business in Iraq that means he will always have an excuse to play the 'resistance' card. I hope I am being paranoid, because if I am right McDonalds could trigger a war in Iraq.
5 comments:
we are never going to get real peace in Iraq so long as he lives....you hit the nail on the head right there...when is someone in the PM's office or in mukhabarat going to step up to the job and assassinate this guy before he destroys the country again
I doubt they will. Even the US marines were afraid of touching him. This was before he turned into a full fledged maniac and had a standing army. The Americans didn't even want to back up Iraqi forces when a date and time was set for his arrest because they feared an uprising. How ironic.
Eye I agree with what you and the first anonymous person here says but... I dont think the US was afraid... why is it less fearful to go after Saddam and his sons than to go after Moqtada? I think this goes with a long history on that countries part for doing "partial jobs" and letting chaos dominate.
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I think when he spoke about companies he didnt know what he was saying, i felt he was like a child, not only his accent and the style he spoke in, but also he contradicts himself. If iam frank, he talked a lot of crap. He spoke that the people of Iraq dont want Maliki, even though he got 89 seats?? It was a silly interview, however after what he said, it will be hard to compromise with Maliki to form the next government, i think now that neither Allawi nor Maliki will be the next PM.
Remember when the Cross-worshippers claimed that the "real" reason they attacked Iraq, was to alleviate Saddam's victims.
(That is, after the "real" reason of WMD stockpiles and mushroom clouds.)
Sadr senior was assassinated by Saddam, and now Americans are leveling threats of assassinating his son.
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