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Sayyed Sadr: No Attacks on US Occupation before Pullout
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Muslim Shia cleric Sayyed Muqtada Sadr has ordered his followers not to launch any attacks on US occupation troops before the completion of their pullout from Iraq scheduled for by the end of the year.
"In order that Iraq can recover its independence through the withdrawal of the invaders from our territory, I judge it indispensable to halt all armed resistance operations until the complete withdrawal of the occupying forces," Sayyed Sadr said in a statement received by AFP on Sunday.
"If the pullout is completed and there is no longer a single US soldier on our territory, the military operations will end definitively but if that is not the case and Iraq remains in a state of dependency, they will resume with greater vigor," Sadr reiterated. He paid tribute to "the resistance for its actions" and said his movement was now working "hand in hand with the government to achieve the liberation of the country and supporting it against US pressure."
One Week earlier, Sadr warned that any US training mission in Iraq after 2011 would amount to an occupation force and need to be opposed by "military means."
The letter, released last Saturday in the cleric's base in the holy city of Najaf, came after Baghdad agreed to open talks with Washington for a training mission post-2011, when all US troops are due to have left.
"We will treat anyone who stays in Iraq as an oppressive occupier that should be resisted through military means," Sayyed Sadr said in the letter released by his office.
Muslim Shia cleric Sayyed Muqtada Sadr has ordered his followers not to launch any attacks on US occupation troops before the completion of their pullout from Iraq scheduled for by the end of the year.
"In order that Iraq can recover its independence through the withdrawal of the invaders from our territory, I judge it indispensable to halt all armed resistance operations until the complete withdrawal of the occupying forces," Sayyed Sadr said in a statement received by AFP on Sunday.
"If the pullout is completed and there is no longer a single US soldier on our territory, the military operations will end definitively but if that is not the case and Iraq remains in a state of dependency, they will resume with greater vigor," Sadr reiterated. He paid tribute to "the resistance for its actions" and said his movement was now working "hand in hand with the government to achieve the liberation of the country and supporting it against US pressure."
One Week earlier, Sadr warned that any US training mission in Iraq after 2011 would amount to an occupation force and need to be opposed by "military means."
The letter, released last Saturday in the cleric's base in the holy city of Najaf, came after Baghdad agreed to open talks with Washington for a training mission post-2011, when all US troops are due to have left.
"We will treat anyone who stays in Iraq as an oppressive occupier that should be resisted through military means," Sayyed Sadr said in the letter released by his office.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org team
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