Legislature of Shiite al-Ahrar (Liberals) Trend threatens that Sadrists would resist U.S. forces if they insist to stay in Iraq.

  KARABALA / IraqiNews.com: The Legislature of al-Ahrar Bloc, member of the National Coalition, Jawad al-Hasnawy, has said on Saturday that the Shiite “Sadrist Trend has laid a plan to resist the American forces if they insisted to stay in Iraq,” pointing out the plan would be implemented in the beginning of next year.   “There are pressures, exerted by the USA to keep part of its troops in Iraq after their scheduled time of departure, according to the Security Agreement signed between the two countries, and we have laid a plan to resist the American presence, that will stand counter to the demands of all the people of Iraq, who refuse the presence of a single American soldier in the country after the end of the current year,” Hasnawi told IraqiNews.com news agency.   The U.S. House Chairman has called for the extension of the American troops presence in Iraq, after the defined time for their withdrawal by the end of the current year, “because Iraq represents a major significance for the American National Security,” as he said, adding that “there are security loopholes in the Iraqi side, pointing out to the possibility for the stay of 10,000 U.S. soldiers.”   Noteworthy is that the spokesman for the Sadrist Trend, Salah al-Obeidy, had announced in a statement he delivered on behalf of the Trend’s Chairman, Muqtada al-Sadr, on 9/4/2011, that “if the American forces don’t leave Iraq , the Trend’s Al-Mahdi Army would escalate military resistance, as well as peaceful resistance against those forces.”   Hasnwawi, meanwhile said that “the Sadrist Trend’s plan to resist the American occupation was based on three axis – military, political and civilian, pointing out that military resistance would be open for a confrontation on an open front, the political resistance would be practiced through boycotting the political meetings and activity, through which the American forces intervene, and as for the civil resistance, it shall include the organization of demonstrations and sit-in demos in all Iraqi provinces.”   SKH (FT)     532