Sadrist delegation in Kurdistan
Aswat al-Iraq/ Voices of Iraq is reporting that a delegation of four Sadrist MPs has traveled to Arbil to visit with Kurdish President Masoud Barzani.
VOI's Abdul-Hamid Zibari writes there that Sadrist MP and delegation member Baha al-Araji described the visit as unprecedented. Araji also said that the Sadr movement would back the Kurdistan Coalition's demands in parliament "if these demands did not clash with the national and Islamic basics."
This is just another little sign of the cross-"group" politics that still goes on in Iraq, alongside the violence that makes up most of what we read in the MSM.
I don't understand why-- according to the counters posted right there on the VOI site-- so few people seem to be reading their very informative newsfeed in English. The range of material they publish there every day is really amazing.
I've been revamping my sidebar a bit today, and I just put a link to their English-language homepage there in the "Links" section.
Is it me, or are the Sadrist just about the most pragmatic bunch of politicians in Iraq right now. They try and keep neighborhoods safe. They reach out to the Sunnis and the Kurds. And what does the Bush administration do? Try to stomp on them.
The Sadrists have their own violent elements. I am not sure those elememts are under the control of Sadr, however.
I would say just about everyone in Iraq has PTSD by now.