Monday, April 09, 2007
Al-Sadr Calls for Attacks on U.S.
April 9, 2007
IRAQ NEWS
Iraqi Shiites Burn US Flags on Regime Fall Anniversary
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shiites burned and trampled on US flags
in the holy city of Najaf on Monday at an anti-American rally called by
firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on the fourth anniversary of the fall
of Saddam Hussein. (AFP)
Al-Sadr Calls for Attacks on U.S.
The renegade cleric Muqtada al-Sadr urged the Iraqi army and police to
stop cooperating with the United States and told his guerrilla fighters
to concentrate on pushing American forces out of the country, according
to a statement issued Sunday. (AP)
Insider: Missteps Soured Iraqis on U.S.
In a rueful reflection on what might have been, an Iraqi government
insider details in 500 pages the U.S. occupation's "shocking"
mismanagement of his country a performance so bad, he writes, that by
2007 Iraqis had "turned their backs on their would-be liberators." (AP)
