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Maliki's Latest Manuevers Aimed at Stopping Iraqi Elections?
posted 04-08-08
Is Iraq's prime minister using the Iraqi and American army to create mayhem so that coming elections can be called off?
A report in the New York Times notes that the latest 'Crackdown on Militias May Add to Instability in Iraq ' saying that the end result in Maliki's call for the Mahdi Army to disband could be violence that would allow the government to call off the coming elections:
Joost Hiltermann of the International Crisis Group said that both Mr. Maliki’s threat to ban Sadrists from provincial elections and Mr. Sadr’s reply were “smart politics,” and that the prime minister’s threat was evidence that he was now relying on political stratagems to neutralize the Sadrists, instead of what he called the military “fiasco” of his Basra adventure.
“The Sadrists are not going to agree to disband the Mahdi Army; that would be suicidal,” said Mr. Hiltermann, speaking from Istanbul. “But it presents Sadr with a dilemma. If they say they won’t disband, then they could be disenfranchised, which is not in their interests because they really want these elections. Or they could turn to violence, in which case Maliki and his allies could call off the elections, which many of them don’t want.This is democracy?
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