In the weeds today so some short posts on news you may not have seen on events in Iraq. This article out of Europe has a reasonably good history, and well detailed overview of the Sadr/Mahdi Army conflict in Iraq. Interestingly these folks conclude the Sadrist have been crippled and Maliki strengthened, […]
A spokesman for anti-American Shiite cleric al-Sadr admitted today that Iranian arms are being used by Sadrist and Mahdi Army forces, and then tried to defuse the news with the ‘everyone does it’ BS the news media is so gullible to bite on:
A spokesman for the Sadrist movement of Muqtada al-Sadr, accused by the Americans […]
There is a must read article on the power struggle playing out between Shiite PM of Iraq Maliki and the Sadrists Shiite block, which clearly is a puppet of Iran - according to this author:
Even the most diehard Iraq hawks want to reduce the U.S. military footprint in Iraq and lean more heavily on Iraqi […]
Bumped to Top - Major Update: It would seem Sadr is not willing to go for a real suspension of the fighting, signing up to only a 4 day “truce”:
Representatives of the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr and lawmakers from Iraq’s main Shiite political bloc signed a four-day cease-fire Monday in an effort to […]
Moqtada (”Mookie”) al-Sadr and his Iranian trained and armed Mahdi Militia had expected one thing would shield there efforts - and that was Shiite clerics rarely, if ever, break ranks publicly. Sadr expected the Shiites would rise up if he and his Mahdi thugs were ever attacked, expecting those attacks to come from Sunnis […]
Iran is under serious pressure to dismantle its nuclear program by the world powers. It has been under political and economic pressure for years now as every effort has been made to use all non-military options to stop a suicidal martyrdom state from obtaining the most horrific Weapon of Mass Destruction man has created. […]
All indications are that Iraq is preparing for a final, two-pronged push against the Mahdi Militia in Iraq. The first prong is on the political front with legislation that will outlaw political organizations which support armed militias:
Iraq’s parliament has begun debating a bill on provincial elections that will ban any party from competing in […]
It had to happen sooner or later - the Mahdi Forces have started to openly admit they are getting support from Iran in their fight against the elected government of Iraq and the US forces supporting it:
Abu Baqr, now a commander in the Mahdi Army militia of cleric Muqtada Sadr, blames Iran for what happened […]
The Iranians are clearly fools if they think their latest ravings are going to impress anyone:
State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey was reacting to Iran’s announcement it will not hold a fourth round of security talks with the United States as long as US forces continue attacking Shiite militias in Baghdad.
“It’s meaningless to have talks […]
The evidence of Iran’s military involvement in Iraq is growing rapidly as US and Iraqi forces take out the Mahdi Militia fighters. This evidence is bringing the situation between Iran and the US to a head, because the US cannot allow any nation to target its troops without responding with swift and deadly […]
As the Iraqis and US have been purging southern Iraq of Shiite Cleric Moqtdata al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army forces more and more evidence on the role Iran has played in training and arming (and possibly leading) the Mahdi has brought the US and Iran to heads like never before. That is because Sadr and his […]
Here were I think things stand behind the diplomacy scenes between Iran, Iraq and the US. It has become clear from the Iraqi crackdown on the militant Mahdi Army, led somewhat by anti-American, anti-democracy Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, that Iran has been also a key force behind the Mahdi Army in terms of weapons, […]
With the Jeremiah Wright flack running heavy I did not post any news stories of interest from the war on terror - so today’s update has a lot of articles. I am going to start with a very unique article from UPI which discusses new calm in Sadr City - which we all know […]
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Evidence must be mounting that Iranians are involved with the Madhi Army in a proxy war within Iraq because the tension is ratcheting up with no one backing down. The US, clearly fed up with Iranian weapons and trained fighters attacking American and Iraqi forces, apparently has put Tehran on notice of that […]
Clearly the Iranian flow of weapons into Iraq and to the Mahdi Army continues apace, and may even be increasing as brand new systems are being discovered in the hands of insurgents:
he US military says it has found Iranian-made mortars, rockets and explosives in Iraq bearing recent date stamps, the Wall Street Journal reported on […]
