Robert McClelland (Barton, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Defence. Is the minister aware of allegations aired on last Wednesday’s SBS Dateline program that it was highly likely that Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mehdi Army recently fired at least five rocket-propelled grenades at Australian troops on patrol in southern Iraq? Given that Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki relies on al-Sadr supporters as a primary political power base, has the Australian government made a formal complaint to Prime Minister al-Maliki regarding his government’s failure to rein in the Mehdi Army, which has threatened the lives of Australian troops?

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