Juan Cole: April 26, 2005 Part 2

Badr Corps Will Accept Ex-Baathists

BBC Monitoring translates comments of Hadi al-Amiri in ash-Sharq al-Awsat for April 24:

April 25, 2005

HEADLINE: HEAD OF IRAQI SHI'I GROUP OFFERS UNITY TO EX-BA'THISTS

"The following is the text of the interview with Al-Amiri, conducted in Baghdad by Al-Sharq al-Awsat correspondent Huda Jasim, published by London-based newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat web site on 24 April: