Thursday, April 17, 2008

Memory Hole: Sadr Quits

(Originally posted April 17, 2007)

But it could have been yesterday, readers.

Shows you how little has changed in a year, and how the MSM shovels recycled shit at you between their damnable lies!

"Shiite Cleric Has Six Quit Cabinet in Iraq Shake-Up"

BAGHDAD, April 16 — Moktada al-Sadr, the rebellious Shiite cleric, withdrew his six ministers from the Iraqi cabinet on Monday, in the first major shake-up of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s government since it was installed a year ago....

Sadr said he was motivated by Iraqi nationalism.... Mr. Sadr is playing to his base, an enormous population of poor, downtrodden Shiites who feel they have suffered under both the American presence and the Sunni Arab insurgency....

In another sign of Mr. Sadr’s strength, thousands of protesters, many of them Sadr followers, marched Monday to the compound of the governor of Basra Province to demand his resignation, because of a lack of basic services like electricity and water.

The governor, Muhammad al-Waeli, is a member of the Fadhila Party, a rival to the Sadr movement, and has said he fears a coup by the protesters. Shiite militias and parties are struggling for control of Basra, which has some of the world’s largest oil reserves....

American forces have also stepped up raids against Mahdi Army commanders and arrested some of its senior leaders....

American forces accidentally killed three Iraqi policemen and wounded one while on a raid northeast of Ramadi, the American military said Monday.... "

Ooops, we did it again!