Iraqi cleric's group says U.S. wants confrontation

maddezmom

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Sat Jan-20-07 08:56 AM
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Iraqi cleric's group says U.S. wants confrontation

BAGHDAD, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's political movement accused Washington on Saturday of trying to provoke a confrontation, after the arrest of a top aide to the militia leader, who is an ally of Iraq's Shi'ite prime minister.

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Abdul Mahdi Mtiri, a member of the Sadrists' political committee, said Iraqi officials had promised Darraji would be released. "We don't know how serious this promise is because so far he has not been released," Mtiri told Reuters.

Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told Iraqiya state television he did not expect him to be released on Saturday.

"The matter is not in the hands of the Iraqi government. The Americans arrested him and they're investigating him and when they're finished they will release him," said Dabbagh, who said on Friday the operation had the full backing of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

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Missy M

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Sat Jan-20-07 09:05 AM
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1. I'm not sure any matters in Iraq are in the hands of the...

Iraqi government. Maliki backs the operation but says it is not in his hands. Seems like Maliki talks out of both sides of his mouth to cover his butt.

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maddezmom

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Sat Jan-20-07 09:14 AM
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2. his aides and advisors sure do, here's another quote

"There was no coordination with the Iraqi political leadership, and this arrest was not part of the new security plan," Sadiq al-Rikabi, the Maliki adviser, told Al-Arabiya television. "Coordination with the Iraqi political leadership is needed before conducting such operations that draw popular reactions.

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Missy M

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Sat Jan-20-07 09:33 AM
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3. I think the Iraqi political leadship needs "coordination" between..

each other before they make any statements. Could it be they make a statement and then hear from the White House on how their statement should read? That would explain the conflicts.

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