al-Sadr's forces agree to lay down arms in Najaf

[Bulk Beef]

Breaking on CNN. Just heard on radio. Terms included disarming and becoming a political entity instead of a paramilitary one.

We'll see.

 

[kage69]

Yeah, given their past with 'agreements' I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[Todd33]

Don't say bad things about the next President of Iraq, or should I say Iran II?

 

[GoPackGo]

Sounds like the only reason he agreed was that the Iraqi troops were about to invade the mosque where he is hiding.

 

[maddogchen]

Originally posted by: GoPackGo
Sounds like the only reason he agreed was that the Iraqi troops were about to invade the mosque where he is hiding.

Yeah thats what the news is making it out as

On Tuesday, an eight-person delegation from the conference traveled to Najaf to present a peace proposal to al-Sadr. It demanded the cleric's militia disarm, leave the Imam Ali Shrine where it has taken refuge, and transform itself into a political party in exchange for amnesty.

Al-Sadr declined to meet the peace delegation, and earlier Wednesday Iraqi Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan said the government could raid the shrine within hours to push out the militants.

On Wednesday evening, however, Safiya al-Suhail, an independent Shiite delegate at the conference, said she had received a letter from al-Sadr's Baghdad office saying he accepted the proposal.

"Muqtada al-Sadr has agreed on the conditions set by the National Conference," she said reading the letter to the conference.

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[Bulk Beef]

Originally posted by: GoPackGo
Sounds like the only reason he agreed was that the Iraqi troops were about to invade the mosque where he is hiding.

Really?? Here I was, thinking that he was doing this out of the kindness of his good heart.

CNN Story

 

[mastertech01]

Change 10000

Refuses to DIsarm

 

[dudeguy]

i had the news on the reuters wire all day, and i had an iraq window open, and you headline news flashes come up, and it was one minute he would, one minute he wouldnt. allawi: he loves you, he loves you not!

 

[The Green Bean]

why would he lay down arms? Noones going close to that shrine.

 

[Kadarin]

Anyone who trusts al-Sadr at his word is foolish.

 

[GoPackGo]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Anyone who trusts al-Sadr at his word is foolish.

Hence the US Warplanes that are currently pounding Najaf