Influential Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said in his latest comments that there is “no place for militias” in Iraq, calling on the nation to form a unity government and stop the era of sectarianism.
Sadr has long been preaching unity, and his party’s plurality in the new parliament suggests this is at least in part an effort to form a coalition. His having a militia of his own in the past may have some questioning his sincerity.
It remains to be seen if this will help him court valuable alliances with Sunni blocs. Sadr had also been reported to be courting the Fatah Party, a Shi’ite party that is dominated by militias, and this may suggest that he’s less keen on them.
This would make sense, as a majority coalition needs Sunni blocs, but could probably live without Fatah, which did extremely poorly in the vote.
Iraq is no place for u.s. puppet dictators.
He iis not courting US militia? That could be a problem,
I thought, Iraq already made PMU militias an official part of the Iraqi Arny? This decree is, sus.