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Anti-American Islamic Cleric Will Protest U.S. Plans to Remain in Iraq
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“The first thing we will do is escalate the military resistance activity and reactivate the Mahdi Army in a new statement which will be published later. Second is to escalate the peaceful and public resistance through sit-ins.”
After Defense Secretary Robert Gates stated that American troops could remain in Iraq for several more years, tens of thousands of protesters allied with radical anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr took to the streets of Baghdad. Salah al-Obaidi, Sadr’s spokesman, announced plans to continue the protests.
Baghdad Embassy Doubling in Size
“The staff will increase from 8,000-plus personnel that we have now to roughly double that by 2012. This will be an extraordinarily large embassy with many different functions.”
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