(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Salah al-Obeidi, a spokesman for the Sadr Movement said, “We will do our best ... to refuse these troops ... by protests and by military works,” says, adding that “ the movement's leader Muqtada al-Sadr has further said that we will not leave our weapons if the Americans stay in Iraq after 2011.”
He added, “If the American troops stay in Iraq ... We will do our best to press or to put further number of our fighters to kill them.”
Washington has reportedly offered Baghdad to keep up to 10,000 US forces in Iraq for at least another year. On Tuesday, the Iraqi parliamentarians petitioned the government against extending the US military presence in the country.
The appeal, signed by 100 lawmakers, warns Baghdad against the dire consequences of the continued deployment of the American troops beyond the December 31, 2011 deadline stipulated in the US-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement.
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