Badr Bing Badr Boom by mike · 2005-06-09 The rift between the Iraqi government and hostile Sunni Arabs widened further on Wednesday as the country’s leaders came out in support of ethnic and sectarian militias that Sunnis fear could be used against them … The announcement regarding militias was the first time the new government had publicly backed armed ethnic and sectarian groups, and it was an implicit rebuke to American officials, who have repeatedly asked that the government disband all militias in the country … “You and the pesh merga are wanted and are important to fulfilling this sacred task, to establishing a democratic, federal and independent Iraq,” [Iraqi President and militia leader] Talabani said at the news conference, speaking of the Badr Organization, which numbers in the tens of thousands. Related
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