"Iraqi government" issues ultimatum to al-Sadr

[Aidoneus]

Note: this bullying demand by the puppet agents has been rejected, according to an aide of Sayyid Muqtada(HA).

Iraqi government issues ultimatum to al-Sadr
Thursday 19 August 2004

Iraq's interim government says Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr faces a military strike within hours unless he agrees to demands that include renouncing violence and handing in arms.

Aljazeera's correspondent said Minister of State Kasim Daud, speaking in Najaf on Thursday, spelt out "final-hour conditions" that he said the Shia leader had to meet and warned that "military action is imminent".

In Daud's words, the Shia leader must announce in person at a press conference that he would dismantle the al-Mahdi Army.

Al-Sadr must also disarm and hand over all light and heavy weapons belonging to al-Mahdi Army militiamen in different Iraqi governorates to the police and national guard at special centres for receiving these weapons.

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But in his address, Daud said the government had exhausted all peaceful means to deal with al-Sadr.

He pledged the shrine would be liberated but declined to say whether the goverment would storm it.

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D08B5649-F587-4E15-AF9C-C489454992E2.htm

What peaceful means had these quisling agents tried? Threatening to shoot all reporters as the old city is made more pockmarked than the moon doesn't count for this. As a point of contention, the Masjid is already liberated, but I should like to see if Daud survives the decision to bring harm upon it and the thousands inside. The neoBaathist tyrants operating under the wing of the invaders show themselves as no different than what was before; may they crack like glass.

It would seem that Sayyid Muqtada as-Sadr(HA)'s truce offer has been rejected in spirit by the enemy. A key point to its implementation was insisting on the US & "Iraqi" side first ceasing their aggressions and halting future provocations (such as the aggressive operations that began the latest fighting). It is just as likely that this would be held up by the invaders as it would have been for an indian nation to trust a treaty signed with the predecessors of the occupyers.

[Ghetto_Boy]

1. I lost count... ultimatum number 5? 6?