Shia Rally Against U.S. Troops in Iraq, Threaten to Take Up Arms if Troops Don't Leave by Year-End Deadline
Submitted on May 26, 2011
26 May 2011 - Al Jazeera
Thousands of supporters of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have ralled in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, in a show of force against any extension of US military presence in the country past a year-end deadline..."They have a message aimed at Americans: if you stay beyond the deadline set by the SOFA agreement...if they stay beyond that date which is 31 of December, the end of this year, the Mahdi army will resume its military activities and they will battle US forces..."
