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Sadr criticized the opening of the American consulate in Basra and calls for political and popular responses
Author: MB Editor: OT | AA Wednesday 06 تموز 2011 15:39 GMT
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
criticized cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, on Wednesday, opening of the American consulate in Basra province, stressing that "the occupier" would protest the protection of the consulate to enter the forces of the province, as called for responses of popular and political order not to be repeated attempts by the violation of Iraqi sovereignty , said the official spokesman for Muqtada al- al-Sadr, Salah al-Obeidi said in a statement issued today, and got "Alsumaria News", a copy of it, that "Muqtada al-Sadr expressed his strong condemnation for the opening of a consulate of the occupier the U.S. in the province of Basra Fayhaa," noting that "the occupier will protest the protection of the consulate for the introduction of troops into the province." Obeidi said that "the provincial council had voted a majority large, a resolution to prevent the entry of the occupying forces to the province," noting that "Americans hit the wall what they claim to be stuck in democracy, which states respect the opinion of the people and their representatives as they claim, by presenting a request to the Foreign Iraq to open consulate them in Basra, which met with acceptance by the ministry. " He said al-Obeidi that "al-Sadr calls for not allowing obtaining such legal violations," calling for "action at both the political and public in order not to be repeated attempts to violations of Iraqi sovereignty," according to the statement . The U.S. ambassador to Iraq, James Jeffrey, was officially opened yesterday, the U.S. consulate in Basra, in the presence of Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman. A statement of the U.S. Embassy for Feltman confirmed yesterday the appointment of Piper Campbell, the post of consul general in Basra, indicating that this Consulate include the provinces of Basra, Muthanna, Maysan and Dhi Qar. and declared Liberal block of the Sadrist movement, on 22 June last, the Basra provincial council voted on a resolution to prevent U.S. forces from entering the county, and called her out of the Basra International Airport. Most of the presence of U.S. troops in Basra , about 590 km south of Baghdad, centered on the military side of the Basra International Airport, about 14 km north west of Basra, which is divided into the airport to both sides, military and civilian, and subject to the civilian side of it controlled by the Iraqi authorities in full, while American forces have taken part military base military, and also contains a U.S. and British consulates and the exposure of the military side of the airport before 2008 continued to rocket attacks, and during this month was more than a similar attack.
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