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What can I do right now to Impeach Bush?

Impeach for Peace, a Minnesota-based impeachment group, has researched a method for impeaching the president using a little known and rarely used part of the Rules of the House of Representatives (”Jefferson’s Manual”). This document actually empowers individual citizens to initiate the impeachment process themselves.

“Jefferson’s Manual” is an interpretive guide to parliamentary procedure, and is included (along with the Constitution) in the bound volumes of the Rules of the House of Representatives. It is ratified by each congress (including the current one), and has been updated continuously through the history of our democracy. The section covering impeachment lists the acceptable vehicles for bringing impeachment motions to the floor of the House.

Before the House Judiciary Committee can put together the Articles of Impeachment, someone must initiate the impeachment procedure. Most often, this occurs when members of the House pass a resolution. Another method outlined in the manual, however, is for individual citizens to submit a memorial for impeachment.

After learning this information, Minnesotan and Impeach for Peace member (Jodin Morey) found precedent in an 1826 memorial by Luke Edward Lawless which had been successful in initiating the impeachment of Federal Judge James H. Peck. Impeach for Peace then used this as a template for their “Do-It-Yourself Impeachment.” Now any citizen can download the DIY Impeachment Memorial and submit it, making it possible for Americans to do what our representatives have been unwilling to do. The idea is for so many people to submit the Memorial that it cannot be ignored.

Feel free to download it, print out TWO copies, fill in your relevant information in the blanks (name, State, notary is optional), and send in a letter today. We’re sending this wave in to Republican House Rep. Ron Paul who has spoken in favor of impeachment. There’s also extra credit for sending a DIY Impeachment to your own representative.
Get the PDF to send in, and DIRECTLY initiate the impeachment of Bush:
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•Extra Credit (your representative) [pdf]•

•For folks in District of Columbia [pdf]•

•District of Columbia Extra Credit!! [pdf]•

Here’s a view of my petition and cover letter, sent to Jenny Brown Waite, Feb 2, 2007

This is what Bush WANTED, further proof

Bloomberg.com: Worldwide

Pre-War Intelligence Acts `Inappropriate,’ U.S. Finds (Update4)

By Tony Capaccio

Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) — U.S. Defense Department officials prepared pre-war intelligence reports that may have exaggerated links between Iraq and al-Qaeda, the Pentagon inspector general said today.

Two offices set up under then-Undersecretary for Policy Douglas Feith before the March 2003 invasion of Iraq produced reports that formed the basis for the administration’s key pre- war claim that Saddam Hussein might provide weapons of mass destruction to the terrorist group.

These actions were authorized by then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, Inspector General Thomas Gimble told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

While “not illegal or unauthorized,” the actions “were inappropriate” because they did not “clearly show the variance with the consensus of the intelligence community,” Gimbel said.

Committee chairman Carl Levin called Gimbel’s report “devastating.” Feith’s operation produced what amounted to “an alternative analysis,” prepared “without the knowledge of the intelligence community,” that was used “to back a decision to go to war,” Levin said.

The committee released only the two-page executive summary of Gimble’s review, which was prepared at the request of Levin, Democrat of Michigan, and Republican Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Relationship

Levin and other critics contend that assessments produced by the Pentagon office were skewed to portray an active pre-war relationship between Hussein and the al-Qaeda terrorist organization, while the intelligence community saw virtually none. Following the U.S.-led invasion, al-Qaeda operatives did become active in Iraq, targeting U.S. forces and helping to foment sectarian violence.

“The Feith office is the one that produced the key alternative analysis which provided that material,” Levin said in an interview. “It was key, it was vital, it was what the White House used to make the linkage to terrorist groups.”

Gimbel cited a briefing given in September 2002 at the White House to National Security Adviser Steven Hadley and Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff. The briefing, given without Central Intelligence Agency approval, purported a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda that “was not supported by the available intelligence,” Gimbel said.

`Undercut’ CIA

Gimbel said Feith’s staff did not present CIA findings and further “undercut” the intelligence community by presenting a slide that said “there were fundamental problems” with the way the CIA and other analysts assessed information about the alleged Iraq-Iran link.

Levin said he planned to have his staff pursue this meeting, which came as the Bush administration was building the case for war that it would present to Congress and the United Nations.

He said he would have his staff interview the Feith analysts who briefed Hadley and Libby and would seek interviews with these two officials as well. He did not say whether he intended to question Feith.

Feith, now a professor of national security policy at Georgetown University in Washington who’s writing a book on the Iraq war, said the report shows “everything we did was lawful and authorized and we did not mislead Congress.”

“The issue of the appropriate process for policy people to use to criticize intelligence work is minor compared to the key conclusions,” Feith said in a written statement.

Republicans Dissent

Republicans on committee often disagreed strongly with Levin and the report’s findings.

“I strongly disagree,” Christopher Bond of Missouri, said. “How can something that is `authorized’ and `legal’ also be `inappropriate?’ That doesn’t pass the common sense test.”

James Inhofe of Oklahoma dismissed most of Gimble’s report as depicting a “turf battle” between competing bureaucrats.

“These matters have been scrutinized at least three times in the last three years by bipartisan, nonpartisan groups,” Inhofe said. The Senate Intelligence Committee, for example, “unanimously reported that it found that this process, the policy-makers’ probing questions, actually improved the CIA’s process,” he said.

Said Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss: “I’m trying to figure out why we are here. We are beating this horse one more time.”

Gimbel, in his summary, said that, in future, the Pentagon’s closer relationship with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, set up in 2005, will “significantly reduce the opportunity for inappropriate conduct of intelligence activities outside of intelligence channels.”

White House, Pentagon Response

White House spokesman Dana Perino told reporters today she couldn’t describe the relationship between Feith and President George W. Bush but that Bush “has long acknowledged that the intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq was inaccurate.”

Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Karen Finn, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said “these matters have been scrutinized at least three times in the last three years by bipartisan and non- partisan groups,” and now the Pentagon Inspector General has concluded that the activities of Feith’s office “ were legal and authorized.”

Defense Secretary Robert Gates responded “I have a problem with that,” when Levin asked his views on the Feith operation during Gates’ confirmation hearing in December.

Levin said the report is valuable because it casts new light on the material the administration used to justify the war.

“If we are not going to repeat the mistakes of the past, there has got to be accountability,” Levin said. “You just repeat mistakes if there is no looking back and trying to find out what the facts were and holding people accountable the best way we can.”

To contact the reporter on this story: Tony Capaccio at acapaccio@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: February 9, 2007 15:58 EST

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Another Blog about our Shadow Government

I’ve created another blog where I descend into the recesses of our hidden government, the link is HERE

Capstone Speech

JFK telling us the 911 truth

Conquerors write the history books, doens’t mean their right, only that they disposed of the opposition.

So Depressing

So many people in the dark, when the truth is staring them in the face. We have been betrayed by our government! There was foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks and they did nothing. What they did do was to increase the ferociousness of the attack by planting explosives that brought the towers down. This was done in order for the United States to have an excuse to invade the middle east (we are building 14 permanent bases in Iraq right now!) Israel aided and abetted this conspiracy, these are the facts, if your a true American, find out the facts for yourself, click on any of the links within these pages and examine, it’s not to much for the sake of our Nation. So many people refuse to believe that Americans would do this to other Americans. It has occurred many times in the past and in many arenas. One example is the intentional injections of Syphilis into black Americans for over twenty years to see how long they would survive, I not speaking of Nazi Germany now, this is the same country, you and I live in, wake up, wake up.

What next?

“First it was weapons of mass destruction. Then when there were none, it was that we had to find Saddam. We did that, but then it was that we had to put him on trial,” said Spc. Thomas Sheck, 25, who is on his second tour in Iraq. “So now, what will be the next story they tell us to keep us over here?” The following is a repost from http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/

First, I shudder to think what Spc. Sheck’s superiors are going to do to him for saying this, on the record, to a reporter.

And second, as Atrios noted, “Don’t trouble your beautiful mind, Spc. Sheck. No one knows why we invaded Iraq, and no one really knows why we’re staying. Just stay safe.”

 

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The War Crime Trial Continues

The war crime trials of George W. Bush, Richard Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld continued today with the prosecution siting the number of deaths that resulted from the invasion of the sovereign nation of Iraq at being over 100,000. This is the figure just for collateral damage inflicted by the US military, not siting the deaths that have occurred because of the civil war that has erupted in Iraq because of the U.S. invasion. An invasion that broke not only international law, but United States law also! The prosecution also went on to site the U.S. military deaths that have occurred in Iraq at nearing the 3000 mark! All of this lost of life was brought about by the willful plan to mislead and misinform the American public, and by ignoring the laws of the United States. When questioned directly by the prosecution, Bush, the defendant, sat with a quizzical look upon his face, while his lawyer whispered in his ear, he offered, at first only a few vague half-sentences, when finally his lawyer stepped in saying that the defendant had no immediate response to that question. His lawyer, also stating that if this trial were being held in the United States, that he, George Bush, would plead the fifth amendment to the Constitution. However, the prosecution objected, stating that even if the Trial were being held in the U.S. the fifth amendment had been revoked by Bush and the Republican Congress and therefore would be of no consequence. Cheney and Rumsfeld, sitting at a table together, conferred, when asked the same questions about the high death tolls and the illegal invasion, answered that the public just did not understand the complexities of the situation and that only the elite among them had an insight into the necessary steps in removing terrorists. At which point the Judge ordered a recess to the trial….to be continued.

In Honor of our Veterans, we call for TRUTH!

Anniversaries cause us to instinctively pause and reflect, just as our leg jolts forward after a well-positioned tap on the knee. In honor of our veterans — to whom we owe a debt we can never repay — the least we can do on this Veteran’s Day is look back at the decisions made that sent our troops into battle, and the roles we played in those decisions. Perhaps upon reflection, our reaction may change.

The fifth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, served as the reflex hammer touch to the knee of American conscience. As the country attended memorials and revisited painful memories of 9/11, the reflection also opened our collective mind once again to the many unanswered questions, legitimate concerns and conflicting evidence in the official description of those events.

For us at the Daily Tidings the event served to open discussion among us about this complex subject, about the conspiracy theories that abound in Internet chats, blogs and so-called investigative reports and most importantly, the questions regarding the media’s role in this ongoing issue.

A month later we have found very little we all agreed on. We especially disagree on the role of the media. Since the Tidings doesn’t cover New York City, Washington, D.C. or the federal government, the ambiguity is shaded with absolution.

Nevertheless we are each members of the fourth estate, an essential conglomeration of individuals who adhere to professional guidelines, and who care passionately about this demanding and often thankless opus. With that membership — we can all agree on some level — comes a responsibility to giving the public the accurate information it needs to make informed decisions. Thus, somewhere in all the banter, we stumbled on one thing we at the Tidings’ truly can agree on.

Apparently, we are not alone. Based on the results of this hallmark 2006 election, the American people are finally asking for change. They don’t like our involvement in Iraq. They voted out many members of the party that put us there. Perhaps they are also ready to question the events and decisions that put us there as well. Perhaps they are ready to ask what really happened on Sept. 11.

We think so. And we call on our colleagues to join us in asking questions.

Every single American daily newspaper must demand of our congressional leaders and those in the executive branch that an independent council be formed to completely and thoroughly investigate the deaths of nearly 3,000 American citizens in the attack of 9/11 — an attack that took place on American soil.

Forget the conspiracy theories for a minute and set aside the political gamesmanship. We are a country that spent five years and $100 million investigating President Clinton. We probed the depths of the Iran-Contra scandal — a debacle that would have never come fully into the public eye had a special investigator not been appointed.

This administration has spent far more energy and time seeking the leak of Valerie Plame’s identity and Barry Bonds’ use of steroids than it has in fully explaining how three skyscrapers crumbled in an instant and nearly 3,000 people were killed. While an independent investigation may never fully answer every question, it will help to heal the wounds of this nation and widespread distrust of our leaders this attack has caused.

This historic tragedy ranks among the worst days in American history. We owe it to every American — but especially those who do battle on our behalf at the behest of our leaders — to spare no expense and allow no party loyalty to dissuade us. The government works for us. If it failed us, either in malfeasance or incompetence, then we must know that. If our current actions around the world are shaped by misinformation, we must know that too. Finally, if what we now believe to be true is only further proven, we would do well to hear the evidence that confirms it. If the government’s version of the events of that day are absolutely true, then scrutiny will amplify that truth and lay to rest the skepticism that remains to this day.

If, however, the questions that remain serve to shed light on new information, that too serves the public. And it is the responsibility of this trusted media industry to dig, probe, investigate and uncover the truth behind government events and decisions that impact the public. On this Veterans Day, we can do no less on behalf of the brave men and women who have been sent to the Middle East based upon rationale that stems directly from the events of 9/11. While we pay homage to all veterans of the Armed Forces today, we are reminded of our duty to watch closely those leaders in the White House and Congress who make the decisions to send our troops to war.

We invite every single American daily newspaper to join us in our demand for an independent council to completely and thoroughly investigate the deaths of nearly 3,000 American citizens in the attacks of 9/11.

America will be better informed, and this is our job.

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GOVERNMENT TARGETS AMERICAN BLOGGERS

Government Targets American Bloggers As Enemy Propagandists

Government Targets American Bloggers As Enemy Propagandists
Military, Homeland Security, Bush White House strategy sharpen knives against anyone critical of the “war on terror”

Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | October 17 2006

Recent scientific polls that show around 84% don’t believe the government’s explanation behind 9/11 and others confirming the fact that support for the war in Iraq is at an all time low have led the Bush administration to sharpen their knives against the new breed of perceived “enemy propagandists,” bloggers, journalists and online activists who dissent against the “war on terror.”

As Raw Story reports , CENTCOM announced earlier this year that a team of employees would be “[engaging] bloggers who are posting inaccurate or untrue information, as well as bloggers who are posting incomplete information.”

So when you’re wasting your time arguing the finer points of the collapse of Building 7 or the quagmire in Iraq with someone who seems unable to grasp basic principles, your foe could well be sat behind a plush U.S. government desk in a uniform.

CENTCOM is infiltrating blogs and message boards to ensure people, “have the opportunity to read positive stories,”presumably about how Iraq is a wonderful liberated democracy and the war on terror really is about protecting Americans.

The CENTCOM website features a useful section, “What Extremists Are Saying,” which provides a full catalogue and showcases the diatribes of US government agents Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi , Ayman al-Zawahiri and their sympathizers – rhetoric that CENTCOM hopes surfers will seek out in order for them to grasp a true understanding for the necessity of bombing the shit out of another broken backed defenseless country in the name of “freedom.”

The jaw-dropping hypocrisy of a regime and its military attack arm that has engaged in the most gargantuan of deceit and propaganda purges against the American people then pointing the finger at inquisitive bloggers for “aiding the enemy,” is alarming to behold.

President George W. Bush looks up as he signs the Military Commissions Act of 2006 in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The bill effectively nullifies nine of the first ten amendments to the U.S. constitution and ends the “great experiment” known as The United States of America.
The White House has made it perfectly clear that it will target American citizens for propagating information harmful to the interests of the U.S. government and classify them as enemy combatants. This is codified in sub-section 27 of section 950v. of the Military Commissions Act of 2006.

Bush’s own strategy document for “winning the war on terror” identifies “conspiracy theorists,” meaning anyone who exposes government corruption and lies about major domestic and world events, as “terrorists recruiters,” and vows to eliminate their influence in society.
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In a speech given Monday, Homeland Security director Michael Chertoff identified the web as a “terror training camp,” through which “disaffected people living in the United States” are developing “radical ideologies and potentially violent skills.”

Chertoff has pledged to dispatch Homeland Security agents to local police departments in order to aid in the apprehension of domestic terrorists who use the Internet as a political tool.

How long before influential online writers, bloggers and journalists like Greg Palast, who was charged with aiding the terrorists when filming “critical U.S. infrastructure,” are arbitrarily gunned down on the street like in Russia or the newly “free” Iraq?

The Bush administration’s media mouthpieces have also been mobilized to stereotype any kind of critical thinking as “giving aid and comfort to the enemy,” a recent case in point being Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly calling for the FBI to investigate the 9/11 Scholars organization for possible ties to terrorist organizations.

Will we witness a “night of the long knives” to silence any and all dissent as the official dictatorship is announced or does the chilling effect of simply threatening to treat bloggers and journalists as terrorists go far enough to intimidate enough people to keep their mouths shut?

A combination of this chilling effect and moves to license websites, impose “hate speech” restrictions and kill off the old internet in favor of a government regulated, China-style “Internet 2″ are the tools in the arsenal of the neo-fascists who wish to continue their domestic and imperial bloodletting under the mandated consensus of total obedience.

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What the video proves!

It proves that there was complicity by the U.S. government in the bringing down of the towers. It proves that the government wanted a dramatic and an unequivocal excuse for invading the Middle East, and that it has been willing to sacrifice thousands of lives in order to do so. This comes from an group of people who believe the citizenry of this country cannot think for itself, that they are incapable of understanding current events. This comes from a group of people who are currently running this country who have a condescending view of Americans, the people they are sacrificing for their own personal greed and vengeance. They are no better than the leaders of Germany who during the Second World War were responsible for the death of millions. Those leaders were held accountable, just as these present day traitors should be! Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Americans must unite to preserve our Democracy. Our leaders say we are fighting in Iraq to give Iraqis Democracy when they are tearing it down here in the United States! These people are marching us down the road to Armageddon, a road that we don’t have to take.

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My Son and Grandson, both in Iraq

My son, SSgt Zachary Gregory and my Grandson, Mark Greory, whose in the Marines are both in Iraq now. Mark has been there about two months and Zac left a few weeks ago. I pray and hope all of our troops return home soon, safe and sound!

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This article written in 2003, prophetic..

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Many US experts and the Bush administration believe that the US came out of the Aug 2003 six-party talks aimed at halting North Korea’s nuclear weapons program in a stronger position than it went in-not least because the D.P.R.K. (North Korea) upset the other states, particularly Russia and China, by threatening to test nuclear weapons while the US lined up with the other states to advocate a non-nuclear Korean Peninsula. A more nuanced assessment of the talks indicates that the outcome may be far less favorable to the US-and for nonproliferation-than the Bush administration asserts. Contrary to the blithe talk of hardliners, the lack of progress to date and the poor prospects for future talks reveal the limits of political and military coercion to achieve nonproliferation goals on Korea.

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Title: Bush’s Bipolar Disorder and the Looming Failure of Multilateral Talks With North Korea
Author: Peter Hayes
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Date: October 31, 2003
Publisher: Arms Control Association
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Contrary to the blithe talk of hardliners, the lack of progress to date and the poor prospects for future talks reveal the limits of political and military coercion to achieve nonproliferation goals in Korea.

Many U.S. “experts” and the Bush administration believe that the United States came out of the August 2003 six-party talks aimed at halting North Korea’s nuclear weapons program in a stronger position than it went in-not least because the D.P.R.K. (North Korea) upset the other states, particularly Russia and China, by threatening to test nuclear weapons while the United States lined up with the other states to advocate a non-nuclear Korean Peninsula.

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THE IMPEACHMENT

From Publishers Weekly
With the midterm elections—and the possibility of majority shifts in both the House and Senate—talk of presidential impeachment is in the air. Holtzman, former congresswoman and Brooklyn D.A., and Cooper, a journalist and lawyer, have assembled a compact but thorough legal and constitutional accounting of five major issues upon which they claim the current president could be impeached. They are “Deceptions into Taking the Country into War in Iraq”; “Reckless Indifference to Human Life in Katrina and Iraq”; “Illegal Wiretapping and Surveillance of Americans”; “Permitting Torture”; and “Leaking Classified Information.” While the authors have a clear political agenda, their book also provides a useful guide to the theory behind and the legal mechanisms of presidential impeachment, clearing up many misunderstandings readers might have, such as the fact that “high crimes and misdemeanors are not limited to actual crimes” and the correct use of the Independent Counsel Act (which Holtzman helped author in 1978). The book argues its points based on examples from the impeachments of Nixon and Clinton (Holtzman sat on the House Judiciary Committee during the Nixon impeachment). While this volume will be read and cherished by those who agree with its political stance—and dismissed and argued against by those who don’t—it’s an important, comprehensive argument and document for our current political moment. (Oct.)
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No one is better placed or qualified to call for the impeachment of George W. Bush than Elizabeth Holtzman. She is a former Congresswoman and Brooklyn District Attorney who was a vital member of the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.

In The Impeachment of George W. Bush, Holtzman and her coauthor, acclaimed journalist Cynthia L. Cooper, have written a clear, lucid and damning legal brief that reveals that the 43rd President of the United States of America has committed high crimes and misdemeanors.

This book focuses on four articles of impeachment: The Offense of Wiretapping Surveillance in Defiance of the Law; the Offence of Lying and Inducing America to Support a War; The Offense of Reckless Indifference to the Lives and Welfare of American Troops; The Offense of Torture in Violation of U.S. Laws and Treaties. It also provides an invaluable guide to how citizens can get involved in campaigning for impeachment, as well as an important historical analysis of impeachments past. The publication of this book is a summons to action in this process.

SECRET TALKS IN JORDAN

With the elections just around the corner you’re seeing all kinds of activity by the Republicans to do something that they haven’t figured out in 5 years, well that’s good, and I hope it works, but whatever the outcome, these people need to be removed from positions of power, the power they have  has corrupted them and their absolute power has corrupted them absolutely!

The Sunday Times October 22, 2006

US in secret truce talks with insurgency chiefs
Marie Colvin
AMERICAN officials held secret talks with leaders of the Iraqi insurgency last week after admitting that their two-month clampdown on violence in Baghdad had failed.

Few details of the discussions in the Jordanian capital Amman have emerged but an Iraqi source close to the negotiations said the participants had met for at least two days.

They included members of the Islamic Army in Iraq, one of the main Sunni militias behind the insurgency, and American government representatives. The talks were described as “feeler” discussions. The US officials were exploring ways of persuading the Sunni groups to stop attacks on allied forces and to end a cycle of increasingly bloody sectarian clashes with members of the majority Shi’ite groups.

According to the source, the key demand of the Islamic Army was the release of American-held prisoners in allied jails.

The Islamic Army has been held responsible for the killing of Enzo Baldoni, an Italian journalist kidnapped in Baghdad in August 2004, and the execution of three Macedonian engineers working for the American army two months later.

The talks with Sunni insurgents, a further sign that US forces in Iraq are rethinking their tactics, came amid parallel efforts to persuade Shi’ite militias to quell their own violence.

Nouri Al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister and a former Shi’ite political activist, held talks with Moqtadr al-Sadr, the radical Shi’ite cleric who leads the Mahdi Army and controls 30 of the 275 seats in the Iraqi parliament. Maliki is believed to have urged him to control his men.

But there were further clashes yesterday when gunmen loyal to Sadr fought with police near Baghdad, a day after hundreds of his militiamen attacked police stations and Iraqi forces in the south of the country.

The escalation of Shi’ite infighting in Amara, where up to 300 gunmen clashed with police, left at least 31 people dead. It is believed last week’s violence was sparked by the arrest of the brother of the local leader of the Mahdi Army.

About 700 Iraqi troops were sent on Friday to restore order, but the violence highlighted the weakness of the Maliki government in keeping order as rival Shi’ite groups jostle for power. Last night it appeared that the Iraqi troops had succeeded in stopping the fighting and they were manning checkpoints around the city.

Only two months ago British troops handed Amara to Iraqi control stating that the security situation there was “relatively quiet”. Yesterday the troops, based in Basra, were on standby, ready to go back in if the Iraqi army loses control.

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