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Al Sadr pulls ministers from Iraqi government.
April 16, 2007 |
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It's amazing how little attention the commercial media is giving to the unraveling of the occupation-backed Iraqi government.
For two years, the regime has refused to -- or been unable to -- request a timeline for U.S. forces to withdrawal, as most Iraqis want. The idea that a government installed by a foreign army could simply ignore the clear will of a supermajority of the Iraqi people and maintain even a modicum of popular legitimacy was always fantastic.
Now, the Iraqi nationalists' patience appears to be at an end …
The political movement of the radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr today ordered its six cabinet ministers to quit the Iraqi government.
Sadr officials confirmed the withdrawal at a news conference, saying it had been caused by the refusal of the Shia prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, to set a timetable for the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq.
Joshua Holland is an editor and senior writer at AlterNet.
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