Sadrists Reject Security Pact Day After US Reply

Iraqi Shiite cleric Talal al-Saadi leads Friday prayers in Kadhimiyah, northern Baghdad, September 2007. Several prominent Shiite preachers in Iraq gave fiery sermons on Friday warning against the signing of a new security agreement which would keep US forces in the country for up to another three years. (AFP/File/Ali Yussef)

From Real Clear Politics:

Clerics tied to the anti-U.S. Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr stepped up calls on Friday for the government to reject a U.S.-Iraqi security pact, a day after Washington delivered what it called a final text of the agreement to the Iraqis.

U.S. and Iraqi officials are scrambling to finalize the security agreement that would remove U.S. soldiers from Iraq's cities by June 30, and see the last American troops leave the country by 2012.

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