Posted on 05/04/2007 6:28:52 PM PDT by Cornpone
An investigative article by journalist Mahdi Mustafa, published March 31, 2007 in the Egyptian government weekly Al-Ahram Al-Arabi, featured photographs of documents indicating that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki has ties with Muqtada Al-Sadr and with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. [1]
The following are the main points of the article:
Al-Maliki Calls to Withdraw Iranian Revolutionary Guards Commanders from the Iraqi Front in Order to Protect Them The first document, labeled "secret, personal, and urgent," is a January 2007 letter from Al-Maliki's office to the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad, with copies to the presidency of the [Shi'ite party] Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq and to the Al-Shahid Al-Sadr organization." [2] In it, Al-Maliki requests that the commanders of the Mahdi Army, who have ties with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, be pulled off the Iraqi frontlines, in order to protect them from being arrested or killed. The following is a translation of the document:
"Secret, Personal and Urgent
"Based on a phone conversation with Sayyid Muqtada Al-Sadr and [after] consulting with [Iraq's National Security Advisor] Dr. Muwafaq Al-Rubai'i, in order to preserve our great achievements and in light of what the present circumstances demand, we ask to temporarily conceal the commanders of the Mahdi Army, who are connected to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, [and to remove them] from the front line [of battle] in order to protect them from being arrested or killed by the American forces. [The names of the commanders] are listed below. It would be best to send them to Iran for the time being, until the crisis passes.
"In addition, [we ask] to send the commanders from the second line [of battle] to the southern regions, since we know that intensive efforts are underway to persuade the Americans to leave the situation [there] as it is. All administrative and security arrangements for the transportation of these commanders have [already] been made.
"We ask you to implement [these orders] and report to us.
"[Signed,] Nouri Al-Maliki, Prime Minster [of Iraq]
"[List of commanders]…
"Cc:
"The Iranian Embassy [in] Baghdad,
"The presidency of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq,
"The office of Al-Shahid Al-Sadr."
Al-Maliki Orders Release of Iranians Who Entered Iraq Illegally The two other documents presented in the article reveal that Al-Maliki ordered that Iranians who entered Iraq illegally be released from prison. The first of these documents is a letter from Al-Maliki to the presidency of the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council, with copies to several Iraqi ministries, including the foreign ministry, which was asked to inform the Iranian embassy of the letter's content.
In this document, Al-Maliki presents a list of Iranians accused of entering the country illegally, and orders to "release them [from prison] and suspend all judicial [proceedings against them]... except for those who have already been sentenced..."
In the second document, Supreme Judicial Council President Madhat Al-Mahmoud confirms that 442 of the Iranians on the list have been released in accordance with Al-Maliki's order.
Such a surprise. /s
That is the same document published here on FR three months ago and was proved to be fake. I need to research it and I will show you why it is fake.
mark
Thanks, j. I don’t think I saw the other one.
Post 14 in the attached link has the Arabic document. It is fake because it only carries our Christian Calender Date ( 1/2007) and does not carry the islamic calender date. No Arabic official document in any Arabic country (except in Lebanon) has only the Christian calender date but it also carries the islamic calender date and in some cases it only carries the islamic calender date. I read ober 2000 Saddam regime documents not a single one does not have both calender dates. I doubt very much that the new Iraqi government will not follow the same traditions followed by the other Arab and muslim countries.
Good catch! Thanks for looking it up. Wonder who’s responsible.
I suspect Pelosi and Assad. ...;)))
Most likely the docs are fake.
But, at the drop of a hat you believe it.
And why shouldn’t we? We know that Sadr is in bed with Iran and Maliki has protected Sadr from our wrath before.
“Good catch! Thanks for looking it up. Wonder who’s responsible.”
Now who in the Middle East would want to implicate Maliki for nefarious collusion with Sadr and the Iranians? Don’t you mean which Sunni nation?? Don’t you mean the most concerned Sunni nation?? Still aren’t sure?
Our president currently supports Maliki. Meanwhile, we don't know from a hole in the wall who the hell this Egyptian reporter is.
But you choose to trust the Egyptian reporter.
Anyway, both Maliki and our CIC seems to have put Sadr on hold for a couple of years, possibly so that we could train up 350,000 Iraqi security forces. Also we've been fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq those past couple of years.
Back to this story, it appears to be BS.
An investigative reporter, from Egypt? Gee, this whole story resonates with bona fides, not least, that there’s barely anything resembling a free press in Egypt, and the Egyptians have no interest in the well-being of American troops.
For that matter, as of 9/11/01, it’s clear they have no interest in the well-being of Americans in general.
what a memri
thx
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