al Sadr bloc has returned to Iraq parliament, gov't will review US troops timetable

[sabra]

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-01/22/content_5634176.htm

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"I can confirm that the Sadr's bloc has returned to the parliament after our five-party committee studied their demands and decided to recognize them," Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani said in a news conference held by Sadrists.

The announcement came amid the arrival of about 3,200additional American troops in Baghdad to help quell raging sectarian violence on the ground.

The demands of Sadr's bloc concentrated on that the government declare a timetable for training Iraqi forces and that the mandate for occupation troops not be renewed without consulting the parliament, Mashhadani told reporters.

Hassan Shnieshil, head of Sadr's bloc, also said at the news conference, "We declare that we are rejoining the parliament and the government, because we want to achieve full sovereignty and stability for our country."

Meanwhile, another member of Sadr's bloc Bahaa al-Araji said that "We declare that we will attend the parliament session today, since there has been a response to our demands."

[itsmesgd]

1. What will be our answer when the Iraqis get their democratic government together

vote and decide that they want us, an outside occupier, out of their country. The chimp says that he is spreading democracy. The question is will he listen to a sovereign democracy? If we persist and stay in country doesnt that make us an anti-democratic invader?

[sabra]

2. but they are a "yound democracy" we'll have to help them correct their ways

:sarcasm:

[iconoclastic cat]

3. Funny that this happened AFTER all those arrests!

Go ahead and tell me that those arrests weren't just a cleanup of Sadr's opponents in his own militia. Now he's working with Maliki.