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Shi'ites turn on council to form militia
(Bangkok Post, July 22, 2003)
Iraq's US-appointed Governing Council met yesterday but its future is now clouded after the defection of the majority Shi'ites . . . The council met behind closed doors at its headquarters, the former ministry for military industry in central Baghdad, spokesman Mohamed Abdul Jabbar said, amid efforts to get rebuilding under way and map the course for Iraq's recovery. . . . But the body, which held its inaugural session on July 13, has already hit a credibility gap, with both Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim groups claiming it is illegitimate and demanding the formation of a directly-elected body. . . . Iraq's Shi'ite majority, whose support is considered vital for the success of the US-led occupation, has turned on the council, with leading firebrand imam Moqtada Sadr decrying the council as illegitimate and announcing the formation of a private militia called the ``Mehdi army''. More than 10,000 of his supporters rallied in the Shi'ite holy city Najaf on Sunday, leading to a tense standoff with US marines. . . . Top US civil administrator Paul Bremer reiterated on Sunday that elections could be held within one year to form a sovereign government, rejecting calls for polls to be held sooner as unrealistic impatience. . . . A group of unidentified Iraqi militants said on television yesterday that attacks on US troops in Iraq were carried out by Islamists rather than loyalists of deposed leader Saddam Hussein. . . . ``America and its allies say they have tanks, they have warplanes, they have technology. We have something stronger than all of this. We have God,'' one said.

posted by LoZo 1:09 PM