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Moqtada al-Sadr prohibits protests at a meeting of the Arab summit
Posted 14/03/2012 07:00 PM
BAGHDAD - Babinaoz (Reuters) - Prohibition of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose supporters regularly demonstrate against Bahrain and Saudi Arabia during the protests, the Arab League summit to be held this month, hoping to avoid scenes that could embarrass the rulers Gulf and Baghdad, which hosts the summit.
Iraq and hosts the Arab League summit to be held from 27 to 29 March, the current for the first time in more than 20 years, an event that you invest the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as appropriate diplomatic first to Baghdad after the withdrawal of U.S. forces in the past year.
However, the summit risked attracting attention to the frosty relations between Iraq - a predominantly Shiite-led government led by Shiites - and the Gulf Arab states are all governed by Sunni families.
Thousands of Sadr supporters demonstrations against the ruling families in the Gulf because of the events of Bahrain, which called for troops from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states last year to crush the protests organized by the Shiites.
In the latest demonstrations on Friday, Sadr's supporters burned the flags of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and chanted slogans against the two countries.
The Web site, Moqtada al-Sadr on the Internet, which involved the movement of the ruling coalition that the cleric ordered his supporters not to stage protests during the summit.
According to the site, said al-Sadr said that hosting the Iraqi people, the Arab leaders need to meet fully the requirements of all the hospitality.
He said he opposed the chest so those who wanted to demonstrate during the summit on specific issues, noting that the host is the real people, not the government.
Has not been confirmed so far, the number of Arab leaders who will attend the summit. It can be a security as a pretext for some not to attend. Iraq is sending additional forces with thousands of troops to shut down the Baghdad confirms that the capital will be safe.
He announced the Security Operations Center in Baghdad on Wednesday, ban motorcycles, bicycles and wheelbarrows in the streets of the capital as of March 17 to prepare for the summit. The Baghdad airport will close in front of commercial flights for several days to make way for receiving VIP aircraft.
Militants have carried out a number of attacks in the last few weeks of the most prominent of bombings and shootings on 23 February that killed at least 60 people and executed 27 of them police officers at checkpoints in the raids on the town on the fifth of March.
It will be the main topic on the agenda of the summit events of Syria, which was not invited because the membership of the Arab League on hold. It seems less keen Iraq from the Gulf countries to take strong action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
It would be possible demonstrations against the Gulf Arab states is an extremely critical of the leaders does not ease up with protests at home did not get used to the face of hostility when you visit other Arab countries.
Khaled al-Asadi MP block the rule of law and the Shi'ite-led demonstrations led by al-Maliki said a sign of political pluralism is one of the strength of Iraq, but all the other political blocs committed to the success of the summit.
He must understand that Iraq is a democracy and that the government can not prohibit any demonstration. He added that the Arab brothers are starting to realize that Iraq is a democratic and pluralistic that there is there.
He said political analyst Diaa Alchukrgi there would be no surprise if you missed a lot of Arab leaders for the summit.
He said he did not believe that the number of Arab leaders who will attend the conference will also hopes Iraq.
He added that the Arab League have a negative attitude toward Iraq for two reasons: firstly that the change in Iraq would mean that Iraq will have a democratic system and most Arab countries are not democratic and the second is that the Shiites rule Iraq as the majority.
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Posted 14/03/2012 07:00 PM
BAGHDAD - Babinaoz (Reuters) - Prohibition of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose supporters regularly demonstrate against Bahrain and Saudi Arabia during the protests, the Arab League summit to be held this month, hoping to avoid scenes that could embarrass the rulers Gulf and Baghdad, which hosts the summit.
Iraq and hosts the Arab League summit to be held from 27 to 29 March, the current for the first time in more than 20 years, an event that you invest the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as appropriate diplomatic first to Baghdad after the withdrawal of U.S. forces in the past year.
However, the summit risked attracting attention to the frosty relations between Iraq - a predominantly Shiite-led government led by Shiites - and the Gulf Arab states are all governed by Sunni families.
Thousands of Sadr supporters demonstrations against the ruling families in the Gulf because of the events of Bahrain, which called for troops from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states last year to crush the protests organized by the Shiites.
In the latest demonstrations on Friday, Sadr's supporters burned the flags of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and chanted slogans against the two countries.
The Web site, Moqtada al-Sadr on the Internet, which involved the movement of the ruling coalition that the cleric ordered his supporters not to stage protests during the summit.
According to the site, said al-Sadr said that hosting the Iraqi people, the Arab leaders need to meet fully the requirements of all the hospitality.
He said he opposed the chest so those who wanted to demonstrate during the summit on specific issues, noting that the host is the real people, not the government.
Has not been confirmed so far, the number of Arab leaders who will attend the summit. It can be a security as a pretext for some not to attend. Iraq is sending additional forces with thousands of troops to shut down the Baghdad confirms that the capital will be safe.
He announced the Security Operations Center in Baghdad on Wednesday, ban motorcycles, bicycles and wheelbarrows in the streets of the capital as of March 17 to prepare for the summit. The Baghdad airport will close in front of commercial flights for several days to make way for receiving VIP aircraft.
Militants have carried out a number of attacks in the last few weeks of the most prominent of bombings and shootings on 23 February that killed at least 60 people and executed 27 of them police officers at checkpoints in the raids on the town on the fifth of March.
It will be the main topic on the agenda of the summit events of Syria, which was not invited because the membership of the Arab League on hold. It seems less keen Iraq from the Gulf countries to take strong action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
It would be possible demonstrations against the Gulf Arab states is an extremely critical of the leaders does not ease up with protests at home did not get used to the face of hostility when you visit other Arab countries.
Khaled al-Asadi MP block the rule of law and the Shi'ite-led demonstrations led by al-Maliki said a sign of political pluralism is one of the strength of Iraq, but all the other political blocs committed to the success of the summit.
He must understand that Iraq is a democracy and that the government can not prohibit any demonstration. He added that the Arab brothers are starting to realize that Iraq is a democratic and pluralistic that there is there.
He said political analyst Diaa Alchukrgi there would be no surprise if you missed a lot of Arab leaders for the summit.
He said he did not believe that the number of Arab leaders who will attend the conference will also hopes Iraq.
He added that the Arab League have a negative attitude toward Iraq for two reasons: firstly that the change in Iraq would mean that Iraq will have a democratic system and most Arab countries are not democratic and the second is that the Shiites rule Iraq as the majority.
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