The Iraqi Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr in a speech, the first after the exile, in the holy city of Najaf declared that "we say no to America" and incited the crowd by saying "we are still fighting." Sadr, who has returned to Iraq a few days ago after three years of self-imposed exile in Iran, in his first speech in public in Iraq urged his followers to "resist" the "American occupation" in a "peaceful" and all other occupants of the country.Sadr urged resistance against the occupiers: "We continue to resist the occupier against the armed resistance and by all means," he said, but stated "do not touch anything in Iraq. We only oppose the occupation, "inviting the crowd to shout the slogan" No, no to America. " Sadr, however, has confirmed its readiness to support the new government of Nouri al-Maliki: "If the government serves the people and its security, we are with him," he said before thousands of faithful gathered outside his home.
"If it does not," he added, there are ways to fix things, but they are just politicians. " Given a few years ago one of the most extremist in Iraq, fiercely anti-American, accused of massacres carried out by his Shiite militia, the Mehdi Army, during the civil war between Shiites and Sunnis that followed the invasion by the international coalition in 2003, Sadr is now able to add seven ministers of his movement in the new Iraqi government and has 39 deputies in Parliament.
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