Perlu ada mencegah perang besar yang penuh pertumpahdarahan, semua pihak pihak perlu menahan diri. Perang akan tidak dapat menyelesaikan masalah dan menambah banyak korban padahal usaha akan dapat menjadi sia sia. Bersabar adalah sesuatu yang baik dan lebih memikirkan penyelesian yang baik. Asal jangan dikaitkan dengan kedendaman dan pembalasan.
Pejuang Irak Al-Sadr perlu memperingatkan semua pengikut agar tidak melakukan kekerasan tidak perlu dan menahan diri. Kalau ada dari mereka melakukan sendiri sendiri tanpa sepengetahuannya sebaiknya diberitahu agar lebih mengutamakan penyelesaian ke depan. US juga demikian dan tidak perlu melawan. Serahkan pada pasukan Irak untuk menjaga situasi keamanan dan kelangsungan masyarakat sebaik baiknya. wassalam, -------------------------------------------- Iraq Cleric to Widen War After U.S. Bombs Baghdad HQ NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his Mehdi Army Monday to launch a broad new offensive against U.S.- led occupying forces following a U.S. crackdown on his strongholds in Baghdad and across the south. The U.S. military claimed new successes in campaigns against Sadr's forces and minority Sunni Muslim insurgents. But President Bush (news - web sites)'s political project in Iraq (news - web sites) took another blow when the Red Cross revealed it told Washington U.S. soldiers were systematically abusing Iraqi detainees months before U.S. officials admitted an isolated problem in one jail. Bush's main ally in Iraq, British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites), is now also under fire for the way his troops treated Iraqis. He apologized. But with public opinion never hot for war, British involvement in Iraq and Blair's own future were called into question. Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon told parliament two abuse cases involving British soldiers might soon lead to prosecutions. Bush, fighting for re-election in November, was due at the Pentagon (news - web sites) later Monday. He has stood by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld despite calls for Rumsfeld's resignation. Shocking photographic revelations that soldiers sent to "liberate" Iraqis from Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) have abused and humiliated prisoners are undermining efforts to win Iraqi sympathy ahead of a handover to an Iraqi government at the end of next month. Bush has insisted that cases heading for court martial were "the wrongdoing of a few" swiftly dealt with. But a welter of accusations from Iraqis and human rights bodies and reports from the Red Cross suggest it is the tip of an iceberg. NAJAF THREAT On the military front, Sadr's chief aide told Reuters at his main base in the holy city of Najaf that a new phase had begun in a month- long insurgency across Shi'ite southern Iraq. "We have now entered a second phase of resistance," he said. But U.S. commanders, helped by rival Shi'ite leaders, sound increasingly confident of containing the Mehdi Army. Tanks flattened Sadr's office in Baghdad's Sadr City district overnight and U.S. spokesman Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt made a hard-to-verify claim that troops killed 35 fighters in the sprawling Shi'ite slum. U.S. forces, spurred on by mounting irritation with Sadr among Shi'ite elders, have also squeezed the outskirts of Najaf. With British forces around Basra, they have been taking back key positions such as police stations in a string of towns across Shi'ite southern Iraq. An armored U.S. column rolled again into the center of the holy city of Kerbala Monday. Hoon said the situation remained tense around Basra and Amara and further violence was likely in the coming days. "Our policy now is to extend the state of resistance and to move it to all of Iraq because of the occupiers' military escalation and crossing of all red lines in the holy cities of Kerbala and Najaf," Sadr lieutenant Qais al-Khazali said. The U.S. commander in the Middle East, General John Abizaid, said his troops were doing their best to avoid inflaming religious passions by intruding on sacred ground. But he said: "We will be patient, but our patience won't last forever. There is a limit to our patience with Sadr." RED CROSS COMPLAINT There have been signs Shi'ite militants might join forces with minority Sunni guerrillas to the north and west, despite a history of strife that saw Sunnis oppress Shi'ites under Saddam. U.S. Marines made an effort to show they had restored peace to the Sunni Muslim city of Falluja by driving an armored convoy into the center for the first time since a bloody siege began last month. But scenes of armed guerrillas cheering the convoy's departure suggested that peace remains rather fragile. A report, published in the Wall Street Journal and confirmed by the ICRC, said Red Cross officials complained in October -- two months before the pictures in the first U.S. court martial case were taken -- about prisoners being held naked in total darkness in Saddam's Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad. A U.S. military intelligence officer defended the treatment at the time as "part of the process," said the ICRC, which also disclosed that its president went to Washington in January to alert Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz to the agency's concerns. Rumsfeld said he learned of problems in Iraq only in January. Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a member of Iraq's Governing Council, demanded punishment for "all those who contributed to this crime, whether by ordering it, hiding these facts or not talking about them," a Kuwaiti newspaper said. The killings of a South African and a New Zealand engineer in a drive- by shooting in the northern oilfields and a bomb that slowed up oil exports from the south also struck at U.S. efforts to stabilize the country ahead of the June 30 handover. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Yahoo! Domains - Claim yours for only $14.70 http://us.click.yahoo.com/Z1wmxD/DREIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> *************************************************************************** Berdikusi dg Santun & Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality & Shared Destiny. www.arsip.da.ru *************************************************************************** __________________________________________________________________________ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. 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