Some Iraqi businessmen resident in Kuwait recently disclosed a fatwa "religious ruling" has been issued in Iraq which bans trading with Kuwaitis. The businessmen were quoted by the daily as saying when a Kuwaiti merchant made a deal to buy a shop from an Iraqi man in south Iraq, the Iraqi man initially agreed to the sale deed, however one day later he refused to part with the shop saying a fatwa had been issued stating trading with Kuwaitis was religiously illegal. The owner of the shop said the fatwa had been issued by a prominent Shiite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr.
| Still up to the same tricks... |
In another incident, the businessmen added a Kuwaiti company which got the approval from the British administration and the Projects Management Department in Basra to establish a project, was refused permission for the same reason. The Iraqi businessmen also warned Kuwaiti businessmen rumours are rife in south Iraq saying Kuwaitis set fire to Iraqi public properties and that they are stealing and smuggling Iraqi oil. The Iraqi businessmen accuse 'some' Iranians of enforcing their influence in South Iraq and standing in the way of strengthening brotherly ties between the people of Kuwait and Iraq and taking advantage of the fatwa to prevent Kuwaitis from participating in the rebuilding of Iraq. They also said the Iranians and their supporters have taken control of Shatt Al-Arab private university and the Education Directorate and have assigned a person to impose strict religious instructions such as forcing girls, even Christians, to wear veils.
| Muqtada's going to have to be shut down. Given his thuggish ways, any opposition from the southern Iraqi ayatollahs will probably be pro-forma. |
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