Robert McClelland Barton, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Defence
2:33 pm
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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