Thursday, October 7, 2010Crisis between Maliki and U.S. Ambassador in Iraq because of Moqtada al-Sadr
BAGHDAD - Omayma Younis: Breaking the Americans on Wednesday, the silence that Tlvawa by about a week over the nomination of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for a second term with the blessing of Sadr's movement, and expressed "great concern" of the formula partnership backed by Tehran, in a position to pay the Prime Minister to reply personally U.S. Ambassador Jim Jeffrey, saying his information "was not accurate."
At the time of my chest a senior leader described the fears of the U.S. ambassador from an alliance with the Sadrists, Maliki, as "a continuation of the mentality of occupation," informed sources said that Maliki's opponents "will try to exploit the fears and Washington as the best."
The Ambassador Jeffrey described the Sadrists as "no different from those who obstruct democracy" in Iraq, according to televised remarks, which he said that "no formal role granted by the government of Iraq for the stream, headed by Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr will negatively affect the possibility of Washington to achieve a strategic partnership with the Government Baghdad."
This is the first signal issued by Washington on the wording of the coalition that pushed Tehran to be achieved with difficulty, after the United States prefer to build a partnership between Maliki and the leader of the Iraqi List, Iyad Allawi.
But Qusay al-Suhail, leader of the Liberal bloc internalized within the National Coalition, was not surprised by reaction to the U.S., describing it as "unexpected." He said that the Sadrist movement for "world", "We have learned always to see whether Jeffrey or other U.S. officials, acting in accordance with the mentality of the occupier which we reject."
In addition, Aldenbos said Adnan, a member of the Iraqi List led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, as was expected from the United States to support al-Maliki against the backdrop of implementation Charge of the Knights (in reference to the military campaign against the Mahdi Army in the south of the country), either when allied with them, this "Washington definitely angry."
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