Date: 2011/01/15
Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Iraqi Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr who returned to Iraq last week has called on the Maliki government to promptly kick the remaining US troops out of Iraq and share Iraqi oil revenue among Iraqis without delay.
There are 47,000 US troops still inside Iraq hiding in remote garrisons under Washington’s strategy of pressuring Iraqi government officials to give future oil concessions to American and Western corporations.
Fully aware of this heinous strategy by Washington and its oil-dependent European allies, Iraqis from all factions oppose such plan as shown by Sadr’s comments in recent days. Now US policy makers –sinking deeper in their own domestic economic quagmire - worry that their devious long-term oil plans against Iraqis hidden behind technocratic paper works such as the so-called Status of Forces Agreement could be forestalled for good.
Muqtada al-Sadr called on Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki honor earlier pledges to end US military presence immediately. Apparently, Iraqis believe US troops are no longer needed in Iraq. Sard enjoys grassroots supports among large sections of Iraqi population. Iraq’s Shia Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani and Sadr met on Thursday and agreed that all Iraqis should share Iraq’s oil revenue.
In the past the US and particularly its most subservient ally in Europe i.e. Britain, used bribery to lure local officials provide great oil / gas concessions for western corporations.
With Sadr’s return to Iraq, mischievous US military-industrial complex have not only to deal with fierce opposition from Sadrists, but also growing discontents by Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani and the rest of Iraqi population including the Kurdish factions and Sunnis
http://www.abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&id=221220
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