Moqtada Tateral-Sadr
... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah...
tells Press TV that the presence of US troops in Iraq is regarded as occupation.
Diyaa Assadi, who is a senior adviser to Iraqi holy man, al-Sadr said that "the US was still being seen as an occupying country."
Responding to the presence of American forces, he stressed that US troops would be dealt as occupying force until their full withdrawal from the country. "There are still troops in Iraq," he said.
Also earlier this year, a senior commander of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), said now that the ISIS Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...terrorist group had been defeated in the country, there was no need for the presence of US troops.