Iraq cleric 'calls for new start'--BBC

[Gloria]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3799371.stm

Iraq cleric 'calls for new start'

Shia militants in Najaf

The Shia militants have been holding Najaf's sprawling cemetery
Radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr has reportedly backed for the first time US moves to gradually hand powers over to an interim Iraqi government.

The change of heart came in a sermon at Friday prayers in the town of Kufa, two weeks after the government was formed.

Mr Sadr, a firebrand whose militia has fought US forces since March, called for a new start and an end to conflict, according to witnesses.

But his supporters clashed with members of a pro-US faction in nearby Najaf.

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[CharlesGroce]

1. Wrong WRONG!

Just read a similar story posted on Yahoo (no link now, find it yourself), Sadr says that the new gov't must denounce the occupation and immediately establish a timetable for the withdrawal of American forces from Iraq. Quite different from pledging support unconditionally, as the mainstream media would have you believe.

There is no way they will do this, being a mouthpiece of LP Bremer's dictatorship. So essentially, it's not a development and hence not a story, just propaganda aimed at convincing you that Sadr is wishy-washy like John Kerry.

[Disturbed]

2. Right Wing says Media is Liberal

What they mean is that the Media is only 95% Right Wing bought and paid for.

[Gloria]

3. Just saw a crawl on CNN to that effect, removal of troops...so

this seems to have evolved since the first reports........