BAGHDAD —  The renegade cleric Muqtada al-Sadr urged the Iraqi army and police to stop cooperating with the United States and told his guerrilla fighters to concentrate on pushing American forces out of the country.

The statement, stamped with al-Sadr’s official seal, was distributed in the Shiite holy city of Najaf on Sunday — a day before a large demonstration there, called for by al-Sadr, to mark the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad.

“You, the Iraqi army and police forces, don’t walk alongside the occupiers, because they are your archenemy,” the statement said.

In the statement, al-Sadr — who commands an enormous following among Iraq’s majority Shiites and has close allies in the Shiite-dominated government — also encouraged his followers to attack only American forces, not fellow Iraqis.

“God has ordered you to be patient in front of your enemy, and unify your efforts against them — not against the sons of Iraq.”

“You have to protect and build Iraq.”

This should be seen as an internal “Declaration of War” against the United States and al-Sadr should be “removed.”

If the “surge” is to work, in my opinion, then al-Sadr must be arrested or assassinated and his followers “liquidated.”

Saying God has ordered people to kill U.S. troops is typical Islamofascist hate and these groups must be eradicated. If you wish to kill the snake then destroy the entire snake.

Source: Associated Press