Report: Letter from Maliki advised Shiite militia to flee

Moqtada al-Sadr's whereabouts are currently unknown

A Kurdish news agency published a letter Wednesday purporting to be from Iraqi Premier Nuri al-Maliki in which he advised Shiite Muslim militia commanders to leave Iraq to avoid being detained or killed by US troops.Peyamner news agency, a Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) affiliate, published the letter from January 14 which was allegedly sent to the Iranian embassy in Baghdad, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution of Iraq and the office of the al-Sadr Shiite militia.

The letter advised frontline commanders of the Mahdi army of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr linked to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards to leave for Iran while second-line commanders were told to hide in provinces in southern Iraq.

However, a US embassy spokesman told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that the Iraqi government had announced the letter was forged.

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