{"id":1881,"date":"2007-01-11T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T09:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/01\/sadr-is-no-longer-safe.html"},"modified":"2007-01-11T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T09:37:00","slug":"sadr-is-no-longer-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/01\/sadr-is-no-longer-safe.html","title":{"rendered":"Sadr is no longer safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/2007\/01\/11\/D8MJ4ID80.html\">Gates confirms<\/a> what <a href=\"http:\/\/reformedchicksblabbing.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/new-strategy-in-iraq.html#links\">Bush eluded to in his speech last night and what Maliki<\/a> told reporters that al-Sadr will not be protected:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"story\"> Asked if the new U.S. and Iraqi offensive would go after Muqtada al- Sadr, the anti-U.S. radical Shiite cleric, Gates said, &#8220;All lawbreakers are susceptible to being detained or taken care of in this campaign.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story\"> Sadr is a key ally of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drudgereport.com\/\">via<\/a>)<br \/>\nNow we have to wait and see if it will actually happens.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Updated to add: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/cp\/world\/070110\/w011071A.html\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> another article on Maliki:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iraq&#8217;s prime minister has told <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Mahdi Army militiamen they must surrender their arms or face an all-out assault by U.S.-backed Iraqi forces<\/span>, senior Iraqi officials said Wednesday, revealing a pledge Washington wanted to hear as American and Iraqi troops prepared a fresh operation to end the bloody sectarian war gripping Baghdad. <\/p>\n<p>The blunt message was particularly significant given that Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi leader, previously had blocked several U.S. attempts to crack down on the military wing of radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, now one of the most powerful players in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prime Minister al-Maliki has told everyone that <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">there will be no escape from attack<\/span>. The government has told the Sadrists (the political movement that supports the Mahdi Army), if we want to build a state we have no other choice but to attack armed groups,&#8221; a senior Shiite legislator and close al-Maliki adviser said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"tag_list\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=ZGNhNGI3ZWM1MmEyZDZlMjExZTFlNTBjMGIzZWIyODc=\">via<\/a>)<br \/>\nTags: <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Bush\" rel=\"tag\">Bush<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Maliki\" rel=\"tag\">Maliki<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Iraq\" rel=\"tag\">Iraq<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/war\" rel=\"tag\">war<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Gates\" rel=\"tag\">Gates<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Sadr\" rel=\"tag\">Sadr<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gates confirms what Bush eluded to in his speech last night and what Maliki told reporters that al-Sadr will not be protected: Asked if the new U.S. and Iraqi offensive would go after Muqtada al- Sadr, the anti-U.S. radical Shiite cleric, Gates said, &#8220;All lawbreakers are susceptible to being detained or taken care of in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-under-the-sun"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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