Palestinian-Mehdi Army update from Debka file

[Grant]

"Two Palestinian rivals meet in Damascus under Iranian-Syrian-Libyan aegis


21 January: DEBKAfile reports that Mahmoud Abbas finally agreed to talk to Khaled Meshaal Sunday night, 24 hours after his first refusal, under the influence of three matchmakers: Iranian national security adviser Ali Larijani, who arrived in Damascus for the purpose, Syrian president Bashar Asad and cousin of Libyan ruler, intelligence chief Ahmed Gadhaf al-Dam.

By this about-turn, Abbas upended the effort made by US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice earlier this month to keep the Palestinians out of the Iranian-Syrian-Hizballah orbit and in the pro-Western Arab camp along with Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

By his action, he also showed contempt for the understandings he reached with Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert following which Israel transferred $100 m in frozen Palestinian revenues to Abbas this week.

The top-level involvement of LibyaÂ’s Qaddafi clan in the latest Iranian-Syrian-Palestinian enterprise in Damascus is an ill omen, signifying Qaddafi has decided to hark back to his extremist orientation and work with Iran and Syria.

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DEBKAfile Exclusive: Moqtada Sadr moves to avert Iraqi-US crackdown on his Mehdi Army militia in Baghdad

21 January: The Sadrist parliamentary bloc of 30 and its six ministers ended their two-month boycott Sunday, Jan. 21, clearing the way for Shiite PM Nouri al-Maliki to muster majority support for the planned US-Iraqi security operation in Baghdad. Moqtada Sadr hoped thereby to save his Mehdi Army militia from being targeted as the source of much of the sectarian violence besetting the capital.

Sheik Mahmoud El Hassani, spokesman of SadrÂ’s militia, ordered all 20,000 Palestinians living in Iraq to quit the country or face death. He said the Palestinians, for whom Saddam Hussein provided housing and money, had brought their suffering on themselves by joining forces with Sunni extremists and al Qaeda and for killing Shiites in the Saddam era.

Moqtada Sadr has ordered his men to melt into the 2.5 million inhabitants of Sadr City and hide their weapons. His tactic is to keep his powder dry in the coming months until the Iraqi-US forces massing Baghdad pull back. He will then re-activate his militia and send them into battle to take over parts of the capital. He hopes the US and Iraqi forces, seeing the Shiites falling back, will turn their guns on the Sunni insurgents instead.

When the Americans invaded Iraq in 2003, there were 40,000 Palestinians living in Baghdad, most in the Haifa Street district, today a Sunni insurgent-al Qaeda stronghold. More than half have been driven out and killed. "

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I found this especially interesting:

"Sheik Mahmoud El Hassani, spokesman of SadrÂ’s militia, ordered all 20,000 Palestinians living in Iraq to quit the country or face death. He said the Palestinians, for whom Saddam Hussein provided housing and money, had brought their suffering on themselves by joining forces with Sunni extremists and al Qaeda and for killing Shiites in the Saddam era."

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RIP Palestinian, their faction-fighting drifting into war. what a sad.

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[quote]He hopes the US and Iraqi forces, seeing the Shiites falling back, will turn their guns on the Sunni insurgents instead. [/quote]


FUK SADR HE'S IRANIAN AT HEART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IRANI CO'CK SMOKER