Word: sadrists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Some of Sadr's supporters are smug in the face of the Prime Minister's warning. "Maliki couldn't even stop the renewal of the Blackwater contract. How could he disband all the militias?" Fawze Akram, an MP from the Sadrist block, told TIME...
...fighting and the rhetoric had ramped up Saturday. As U.S. warplanes targeted militiamen in Basra, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said that the government's enemies in the south were "worse than al-Qaeda." A Sadrist spokesman then retorted that fighters should not surrender their weapons except to a government committed to ejecting U.S. troops from Iraq. But on Sunday, Sadr, in a statement released through his office in the holy city of Najaf, called on his followers to stop making "armed appearances." He said he hoped to avoid more bloodshed. This week's violence has claimed hundreds...
...water, no electricity and no food. The sons of Basra have decided to form groups of martyrs to defend Basra and all of wounded Iraq," said Abu Thar, a commander of the Abu Fadil al-Abbas group, whose videos of attacks on U.S. troops are commonly found on Sadrist websites...
...Sadrists assume that SIIC and its allies will continue postponing provincial elections to deny the Sadrists what they say is their rightful level of representation. Agreements and cease-fires aside, the Sadrists still put less faith in the power of democracy than they do in the power of their militia. "Of course, [because] the Sadrist movement has a base in the street," says Ali al-Mayali, a Sadrist member of parliament. "[It is] a base the other won't have - could never dream of having." In southern Iraq, political disputes are still more likely to be solved in the streets...
...SIIC leader Abdul Aziz al Hakim two weeks ago in Iran, the power grab plays out daily on the streets of southern cities such as Diwaniyah. "What's happening in this town is like a political duel over who's going to govern," said Ali al Mayali, a Sadrist member of the Iraqi Parliament. "It's a fight to control the street." Fueling that fight, Mayali said, is money and other support from neighboring countries. He would not point fingers. While U.S. officials point to the presence of Iranian-trained cells of both Badr and Sadr militias in Diwaniyah, residents...