The negotiations between Muqtada al-Sadr and al-Qaeda remind of a classical story where two rival Mafia gangs make a pact and violate it immediately afterwards. But in this specific case al-Sadr is not a part to negotiate, because, as Michael Ledeen writes “all this attention to Moqtadah is at odds with his actual behaviour: he long since abandoned the battlefield. Missing from Iraq for many months, he recently resurfaced with the surprising announcement that he had gone to Iran to devote himself to religious. The Iranians had fired him, and they restructured the Mahdi Army into smaller, more autonomous groups. The recent violence came from the new units, headed by Iranian officers, agents, and recruits who, Tehran hoped, are not well known to Coalition and Iraqi military intelligence”. It is logical that Syrian fascists and Iranian mullahs are making all possible efforts to create chaos in Iraq: democratic Iraq means for them the end of their hateful dictatorships. On the other part, chaos is the natural state for this kind of regimes. Do remember the former Soviet Union that promoted and financed the wars and the terrorist guerrillas in all points of the World. The communist rulers wasted the national resources in adverse activities bringing to every country, they arrived, only misery and destruction. So the negotiations between Al-Sadr and Abu Ayyub are clear indications of the extreme weakness of these two terrorist groups (if not of complete impotence). The value of their “threats” is the same of that of two animals which menace one another with terrible cries in hope that other will escape without fighting.
