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The War
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Iraq: Al-Jazeera Interview with Muqtada Al-Sadr - March
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“[…] Muqtada al-Sadr, making his first public appearance since May,
said in a TV interview aired Saturday that he was in almost total control of the
Mahdi Army and that the ‘liberation’ of Iraq was his militia’s chief goal.
The radical Shiite cleric also said the impact of the U.S. presence on Iraq
was more negative than that of Saddam Hussein’s Baath party, ousted in the
2003 U.S.-led invasion. Al-Sadr alleged that the government of Prime Minister
Nouri al-Maliki, a fellow Shiite, was as ‘distant’ from the people of Iraq as
Saddam's Sunni-led regime. […] Al-Sadr’s interview with Al-Jazeera, conducted
in an undisclosed location, came as violence was on the rise as part of a
nationwide backlash by the Mahdi Army to the government’s attempt to crush
Shiite militias and criminal gangs in the southern port of Basra. […]” Excerpt of an
Associated Press article
from March 29th, 2008. |
Muqtada Al-Sadr |
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The Video - Excerpts with Subtitles |
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Original link: http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1726.htm |
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The Complete Al-Jazeera Video without Subtitles |
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Original link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPUfv9ECcds |
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War Scenes from Baghdad |
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Pro Al-Sadr demonstation |
Group of Iraqi army deserters |
Burnt office of Al-Sadr |
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Video Credits The Video 1) Screenshot from a tv interview with Moqtada al-Sadr, which has been broadcasted by
Al-Jazeera on March 29th, 2008 and which has since then been
re-distributed in excerpts via the Internet by “MEMRI TV”, the TV Monitor
Project of the “Middle East Media Research Institute” in Washington, DC. The
second interview is the original complete from the Al-Jazeera youtube channel. War Scenes from Baghdad 1) Iraqis display
banners of Shiite radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr during a protest march in the
neighborhood of Shula in northwest Baghdad. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on
Friday ordered a nationwide freeze on raids against suspected Shiite
militants after the leader of the biggest militia complained that arrests of
his followers were continuing despite his order to pull his fighters off the
streets. - April 4th, 2008 - Khalid Mohammed/AP; 2) A group of Iraqi
police officers sit inside a Muqtada al-Sadr office after they surrendered
their weapons in Sadr City, Baghdad. Some 40 police officers in Sadr City
handed over their weapons to al-Sadr's local office Saturday. - March 29th,
2008 - Karim Kadim/AP; 3) A policeman stands guard at the entrance of a burnt office of
Moqtada al-Sadr after clashes in Diwaniya, 180 km south of Baghdad. The
office was burnt by members of tribal members after clashes erupted between
Iraqi security forces with tribal members and Mehdi army in a village east of
Diwaniya on Friday, police said a policeman and tribal member were killed
during the clashes. - March 29th, 2008 - Imad al-khozaiReuters; |
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