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Article: IRAQ: SHI'A UNITY DEAL EXPLODES U.S. PROXY WAR MYTH
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
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- August 10, 2009
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Analysis by Gareth Porter*
Inter Press Service English News Wire
08-10-2009
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The agreement announced
Monday between Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and a Shi'a
resistance group called the "League of the Righteous" (Asa'ib
al-Haq) formally ended the group's armed opposition to the regime
in return for the release of its leader and eight other Shi'a
detainees.
It also comes as a final blow to the U.S. military's narrative
of an Iranian "proxy war" in Iraq.
The U.S. command in Iraq has long argued that Iran was using
"special groups" of Shi'a insurgents who had broken away from
cleric Moqtada al- Sadr's Mahdi Army to destabilise the
U.S.-supported Iraqi ...
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