Sadr pledges to work with UN in Iraq if ...

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http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2007/August/focusoniraq_August118.xml§ion=focusoniraq&col=

20 August 2007

LONDON - Radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada Al Sadr has pledged to commit his forces and followers to help the United Nations were it to replace American and British troops in Iraq, in an interview published on Monday.

Speaking to The Independent newspaper from his movement’s headquarters in Kufa, south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, Sadr said that he would “support the UN if it comes and replaces the American and British occupiers.”

“If the UN comes here to truly help the Iraqi people, they will receive our help in their work. I would ask my followers to support the UN as long as it is here to help us rebuild our country.

“They must not just be another face of the American occupation.”

[acmavm]

1. Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2960044

[beberocks]

2. Sounds good to me

Of course, * co. won't leave until they get all the oil contracts locked up. But for the Iraqi people, the U.N. might be the best way to get the help they need to get their country up and running again. * and his cronies want Iraq crippled so they do what they wanted to it, even if means genocide.