The official spokesman for al-SadrÂ’s office on Monday denied that Shiite Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr had referred the dissolution of al-Mahdi army to Shiite clerics, describing reports in this regard as inaccurate.
| He also denied that Sadr was in Teheran. Then he denied that Sadr had been wearing Depends the last two weeks. |
“Shiite Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr did not think of dissolving al-Mahdi army,” Sheikh Salah al-Ubeidi told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI), noting that “we have no right to interfere in freezing or dissolving al-Mahdi army because it is an exclusive right of Muqtada al-Sadr.”
Al-Ubeidi had said that any effort to prevent Sadrists from political participation would be unconstitutional.
| Allowing the Sadrists to conduct their criminal enterprises is likely also unconstitutional ... |
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