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Iraq
Most Mahdi army's members abided by freezing of activities - MNF
2007-09-06
(KUNA) -- Several members of the Mahdi army have abided by the freeze of task decision which was taken by Shiite leader Muqtada Al-Sadr, Multi-National Force spokesman General Kevin Bergner said Wednesday.
And others didn't.
In a joint press conference with Charlie Ries, the U.S. Embassy's Minister for Economic Affairs and Coordinator for Economic Transition in Iraq, Bergner welcomed Al-Sadr's decision to freeze the task of the Mahdi army, revealing that most of the army's followers had abided by it. He noted that the step would allow MNF troops to track on other militias such as the Omar army which is conducting several anti-MNF operations. Al-Sadr decided last Wednesday to freeze the task of the Mahdi army after the bloody incidents which occurred in Karbala city, south of Baghdad.
Posted by:Fred

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1. For 70 years, US foreign policy officials understood the Marxist doctrine on protracted war.

2. Not one member of America's foreign policy elite, has given ANY indication that they possess even a limited ability to even discern the Islamist doctrine of protracted war. Ergo: short term, strategic halts to jihad action are treated as foundations for lasting peace.

3. When stupidity prospers, none has the intelligence to call it stupidity. Diane West nails the current dominant mentality in besieged Western Civilization in her current book.
Posted by: McZoid   2007-09-06 01:07  

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