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Sistani Shifts

Post Date: May 23, 2008 4:58 a.m.
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It’s another fascinating development: Iraq’s most influential Shiite cleric has been quietly issuing religious edicts declaring that armed resistance against U.S.-led foreign troops is permissible â€” a potentially significant shift by a key supporter of the Washington-backed government in Baghdad... But â€” unlike al-Sadr’s anti-American broadsides â€” the Iranian-born al-Sistani has displayed extreme caution with anything that could imperil the Shiite-dominated government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The two met Thursday at the elderly cleric’s base in the city of Najaf south of Baghdad. If Maliki continues to isolate Sadr and Sistani backs him, we could have a moment when a Shiite government in Baghdad asks the US to leave. Then what will Bush do? Or McCain?

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