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Iraq
Iraqi cleric denies links with ambush suspect
2003-12-04
A man arrested by United States forces as a "deputy" to controversial cleric Moqtada Sadr has nothing to do with the Iraqi Shiite leader, his spokesperson told AFP on Thursday.
"Who? Never heard of him."
A US general announced on Wednesday that a deputy of Moqtada Sadr had been held in Baghdad in connection with the killing of two US soldiers in October. "Coalition forces in Baghdad conducted a joint raid with the Iraqi Civil Defence Corps and detained Amar al-Yasseri, operations director of Moqtada Sadr in Sadr City, also believed to have been behind the ambush of coalition troops on October 9," Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt told a press conference.
Sounds like they have evidence, otherwise we wouldn’t have busted him.
"We have no relation with this person mentioned by the US army," said the cleric’s official spokesperson Sheikh Abbas al-Rubayah.
Yep. Looks like we've got something...
"He does not work in any of Moqtada Sadr’s offices and has no legal status in our organisation," he insisted. "Claims that Amar is one of Moqtada Sadr’s deputies are totally false. We do not have titles such as deputy. The objective of this is to send out confusing signals about Moqtada Sadr and his movement. We have nothing to do with the deaths of the coalition soldiers and we have never confronted the coalition forces militarily," the spokesperson said in the movement’s information bureau in Baghdad’s Karada district.
Translation: He’s guilty as hell and they’re cutting him loose.
Posted by:Steve

#1  "...the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions."
Posted by: PBMcL   2003-12-4 11:18:19 AM  

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