[Arab News] Iraq said on Monday it supported international intervention in Libya, but Moqtada Sadr condemned it and said Western states should avoid civilian casualties.Government front man Ali Al-Dabbagh said Iraq supported the UN Security Council resolution that authorized the intervention, and would back any action as long as it was authorized by the United Nations.
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"The Iraqi government supports the international efforts to prevent any acts of violence made by the Qadaffy regime against its people." A website that publishes the views of Sadr said the holy man had condemned the Western intervention in Libya.
"His eminence (Sadr) rejected and condemned the foreign interference in Libyan internal affairs saying that the people are the ones who own decisions and governments should step down if the people call for it," the website of the media department of Sadr's movement said.
"Those who want to topple (Libyan leader Muammar) Qadaffy's regime with their planes should avoid killing civilians and avoid the calamities of bombings." Sadr, who long led violent opposition among Shiites to the US presence in Iraq, has since become a key part of Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki's ruling coalition.