日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

   

Top Shiite cleric balks at plan for Iraq

(AP)
Updated: 2006-12-24 11:25

Meanwhile, President Bush met with his new defense secretary Robert Gates at his presidential retreat in Camp David, Md., to discuss military options for Iraq including a proposal to send thousands more troops to the 140,000 already in Iraq to try to quell escalating violence, particularly in Baghdad.

The president is expect to announce a revamped Iraq strategy in a speech to the nation between New Year's Day and Jan. 23, when he gives his State of the Union address.

In Iraq, the focus was on politics. Several weeks ago, 30 Iraqi lawmakers and six Cabinet ministers who support al-Sadr launched a boycott of the government. They were protesting a meeting between the prime minister and President Bush.

Now the 275-member Iraqi parliament is in virtual paralysis.

On Saturday, the same Shiite delegation in Najaf that courted al-Sistani tried to persuade al-Sadr to bring his supporters back into government. Al-Sadr did not give a definite answer, according to some of those who met with him.

"He will give his final decision whether to rejoin the government and parliament after Eid al-Adha," Khaled al-Attiya, an independent who is parliament's deputy speaker, said after the meeting. Iraq's Shiites will celebrate the holiday from Dec. 31 to Jan. 4.

Some of al-Sadr's aides had earlier said he would soon end his political boycott and call off attacks by his militia, at least temporarily.

But al-Sistani's rejection of the new coalition — which would have excluded al-Sadr's supporters — strengthened his hand.

Al-Sistani holds no political post and rarely emerges from his home and adjacent office. But his word is considered law by many Shiites.

Despite this, Shiite militants, including members of al-Sadr's Mahdi Army, have not heeded al-Sistani's appeals for peace in Iraq. Many Iraqis on both sides of the sectarian divide view militias as their only form of defense.

One of al-Sadr's key demands is a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.

Without progress toward political reconciliation in Iraq, some observers say, the security situation in the country is likely to remain grim.

In violence on Saturday, an Iraqi military intelligence officer was killed in a drive-by shooting south of Baghdad, police said. Six civilians were killed when a mortar shell hit a house in Baqouba, north of the capital. U.S.-led forces raided a militant hide out in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, killing one person and detaining nine.


 12


Top World News  
Today's Top News  
Most Commented/Read Stories in 48 Hours
主站蜘蛛池模板: 一区二区三区在线观看 | 天天色成人网 | 黄色网址在线视频 | 婷婷在线视频观看 | 欧美激情在线观看视频 | 天堂网在线播放 | 欧美激情黑白配 | 国产成人精品亚洲男人的天堂 | 中文字幕在线看 | 99久久婷婷国产综合精品草原 | 自拍偷拍欧美亚洲 | 亚洲另类视频 | 欧美日韩视频免费观看 | 在线免费观看毛片 | 在线看片国产 | wwwav视频| 黄色片毛片 | 99免费在线 | 日韩一级黄 | 在线观看中文字幕网站 | 亚洲免费看黄 | 亚洲第一黄色 | 日本一区二区三区在线观看视频 | 国产免费91 | 一区视频 | 亚洲激情四射 | 午夜视频在线免费观看 | 成人午夜免费福利视频 | 成人v片| 亚洲免费看片 | 中文字幕天堂av | 噜噜啪啪 | 日韩精品播放 | 国产精品www. | 亚洲精品自拍视频 | 超碰98在线观看 | 亚洲自拍小说 | 日本黄色片视频 | 欧美日韩一区二区三区四区 | 白浆av | 在线看片中文字幕 |