Shiite Militias of Iraq reject US return, threaten to attack US forces

Rasa - The major Shiite militias of Iraq are denouncing Prime Minister Haydar al-Abadi for welcoming US air support in the fight against the so-called ISIL.

News ID: 1182

Date: 19 September 2014 - 18:19

RNA - The London-based daily, Al-Sharq al-Awsat reports that the major Shiite militias of Iraq are denouncing Prime Minister Haydar al-Abadi for welcoming US air support in the fight against the so-called ISIL.

The al-Ahrar led by Shiite cleric Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr called on al-Abadi to reject the US plan. Muqtada al-Sadr also warned the US against trying to reoccupy Iraq and threatened, “If you return, we will return.”

"The Black House [The White House] has decided to resume its attacks on Iraqi territory and perhaps the American decision comes after it had regretted its mockery of a withdrawal from Iraq to avoid the Iraqi fierce military and political and popular resistance." Added al-Sadr.

Al-Sadr called on the Iraqi government not to seek the occupier's help even under the pretext of defeating the Islamic State, claiming the radical organization is nothing but an "American colonial invention".

Al-Sadr concluded by calling on the Iraqi fighters not to cooperate with US troops and to immediately withdraw from their areas in case those troops intervened "by land or by sea, directly or indirectly".

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