Muqtada Calls for an End to Hostilities

Quetzal

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Muqtada Calls for an End to Hostilities

Muqtada Calls for an End to Hostilities

Muqtada is spreading a flyer to his followers. A copy was obtained by a journalist in Iraq and was accessible to Juan Cole.

Translated by Juan Cole

' In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate

"They plot, and God plots, and God is the best of plotters." God, the exalted, the great, has spoken truly.

To the Army of the Mahdi, the Office of the Speaking, Fighting Center of Religious Learning, and to the followers of the martyred Sayyid al-Sadr, and all Muslims:

We formerly requested the withrdrawal of the American forces of occupation from our country, and the erection of an Islamic state. But after the iniquitous attack on us on the part of the American Zionist forces of occupation, we recently asked for the release of Shaikh Mustafa al-Ya`qubi and the reopening of our newspaper, which speaks out, they replied to us with gunfire and the response of rabble. Many of our sons and brothers, Sunni and Shiite, have been martyred. But it has also reached us that a rebellious faction has infiltrated your ranks and deliberately attempted to fan the flames of turmoil, committing plunder and looting of governmental offices that offer services, and of the stalls of money changers. They closed the doors of the universities and seminaries in such a way as to distort the image of Islam and of Muslims, and of the Army of the Mahdi. We do not fear the forces of the infidel American army or the communiques of Bremer and Kimmit. After the intervention of a number of learned clerics and Iraqi personalities and tribal notables, we have decided (we, the office of the martyered Sayyid al-Sadr), to halt the military operations and gatherings, and to stop the disturbance of secure citizens, to halt the attacks on their honor, and to apprehend these rebellious elements and to surrender them to the office of the speaking, fighting religious Center.

We continue to demand the release of all those imprisoned, and the reopening of our newspaper. We urge that action be confined to peaceful retreats after the Friday prayers on 19 Safar 1425, in the Kufa Mosque only.

All believing brethren in all the provinces must prepare to fulfill their religious duties through this sit-in, and to prevent enemies of Islam from infiltrating their ranks.

Muqtada al-Sadr
Najaf
17 Safar 1425 '

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http://www.juancole.com/2004_04_01_juancole_archive.html#108149555357907671

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gottaB

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Fri Apr-09-04 05:42 AM
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1. This is mindbending

My suspicion is that Sadr is distancing his Madhi Army from the Mujahideen Brigade, but this is really over my head.

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Fri Apr-09-04 06:28 AM
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3. He's obeying Sistani

As he promised. At least in Kut.

US is not obeying Sistani. We'll see how long that will last, and what will be Sistani's response, or will Sistani soon become collateral damage in the Battle of Najaf...?

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ConcernedCanuk

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Fri Apr-09-04 05:44 AM
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2. What about the Pope, ya think Junior will pay attention?

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Pope leads Holy Week rites

Vatican reiterates call for UN role in Iraq

ROME, Italy (AFP) — A year on from the start of a worsening conflict in Iraq which it tried desperately to prevent, the Vatican yesterday reiterated its call for United States-led coalition forces to be replaced by United Nations (UN) peacekeepers as Pope John Paul II began a series of ceremonies marking Holy Week.

The Pope used his Easter message last year to appeal for world peace in the wake of the war in Iraq.

"The Pope would do the same thing today. He says today, as he did at the time, that we need the UN," said senior Vatican Cardinal Renato Martino, a former Vatican observer at the United Nations.

LINK

Will Junior listen?

. . :shrug: . .

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Disturbed

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Fri Apr-09-04 06:36 AM
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4. Holding their breath.

al Sistani is the only one that is holding off the mass uprising against the Occupation. He probably sent word to al Sadr to cool it and will grant the young firebrand a positon in Sistani's Govt.If he declares a jihad the entire US Occupation will fall apart. Bushco is hoping that Sistani remains nuetral and alive.

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