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The interview with Muqtada Al Sadr in La Republicca has been translated from Italian by Parvati Roma of Dark Mirror. Found via this comment

I live in Rome, I’m a translator - and I’ve just finished translating the full text of that article on my blog:

on Juan Cole’s site.

INTERVIEW WITH MOQTADA AL SADR
by Renato Caprile, special correspondent
published in “La Repubblica”, 19th January 2007 (print edition only)
(translated from the Italian by parvati_roma)
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“A secret army is against us but the Sci’ites will resist”
Moqtada al Sadr speaks: “Allawi is the US’s man, not Maliki”
BAGHDAD - He feels hunted and is in hiding, he never sleeps in the same bed for more than one night. Some of his most trusted followers have turned their backs on him and he has even moved his family to a secret hideout. Moqtada al Sadr feels the end is near: too many enemies, too many spies infiltrated amongst his people. But he’s not accusing al Maliki, whom he considers little more than a puppet, so much as Yad Allawi, the former Prime Minister on whom he believes the Americans are still betting. This is the man he views as the true artifice of the operation that aims to wipe him and his Mahdi Army off the face of Iraq.

Link: Follow this link to read the entire translation

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