Staying with front page scoops,the Independent this morming carries a report on its front page entitled Secret Plot to Kill al-Sadr.
According to Baghdad reporter Patrick Cockburn,
"The US Army tried to kill or capture Muqtada al-Sadr, the widely revered Shia cleric, after luring him to peace negotiations at a house in the holy city of Najaf, which it then attacked, according to a senior Iraqi government official. "
However read a little deeper and the stor goes back to 2004 and has been in the public domain for some time.The paper itself says that
The attempt to kill or imprison Mr Sadr was first
revealed by Dr Rubai'e to Ali Allawi, the former Iraqi finance minister, who
gives an account of what happened in his recent book The Occupation of Iraq:
Winning the war, Losing the peace.
How correct this lead is,we wait to see .It came from an Iraqi National Security advisor Dr Mowaffaq Rubai'e whom the paper has interviewed and whom the paper says stands by his account.
Perhaps this is after all just another non story by the paper.
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