{"id":1766,"date":"2007-01-21T08:37:48","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T12:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2007-01-21T08:37:48","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T12:37:48","slug":"a-secret-army-against-us-but-the-shiites-will-know-how-to-fight-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1766","title":{"rendered":"“A Secret Army Against Us, But the Shiites Will Know How to Fight Back”"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Renato Caprile [correspondent of La Reppublica<\/em> of Rome]<\/strong><\/p>\n

He feels stalked and goes into hiding. He sleeps no more than one night in the same bed. Some of his most faithful allies have already turned their backs. He has even moved his family to an undisclosed location. Muqtada al-Sadr feels that the end is near. Enemy forces, forces infiltrated amongst his own people! Yet for him it is not about al-M?lik?, whom he considers little more than a puppet, so much as about ?Iy?d al-?All?w?, the former prime minister, whom the Americans have never stopped aiming [to empower]. He [?A.] is the true director of the operation which proposes to wipe him [S.] off the face of Iraq, him and his Mahdi Army.<\/p>\n

[Q1] How is it that al-M?lik?, who up until a short time ago even saw to it that there were six ministers of your movement in his cabinet, is suddenly so aware that the religious militias, and especially yours, are the true problem that must be solved?<\/p>\n

[A1] Between me and Ab? As?r? [al-Malik?] there has never been much good will. I have always suspected he was up to something and I never confided in him. We only met a couple of times. The last time he said to me, “You are the backbone of the country,” and then went on to admit to me that he was “obliged” to fight. Obliged, you see?<\/p>\n

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[Q2] The fact remains that he is on the brink of [?] unleashing an iron fist against his own people.<\/p>\n

[A2] It is effectively unleashed already. Yesterday evening they arrested four hundred and some of my people. It is not we that they wish to destroy, it is Islam. We are only one obstacle. For the moment we shall offer no resistance.<\/p>\n

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[Q3] Do you mean you are going to disarm?<\/p>\n

[A3] The Qur??n forbids killing in the month of Muharram [21 January through 18 February 2007]. So they’ll do all the killing then. There is no better time for a true believer to die, Paradise is guaranteed. But God is merciful, we are not all going to die. After Muharram, we’ll see.<\/p>\n

Read the interview:
\nMoqtada’s interview at La Repubblica, translated<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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