Badara

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CHANCELLOR DISCUSSES DUFAZI
 
MANARA  ALBRAYD SRIA AL-MUSAMI
(If it’s in the Monsoon, it’s got to be true)
 
Chancellor’s Office, November 27, 5646:  During a wide ranging interview on his plans for the government, the Monsoon asked Chancellor Khalifi al-Qassem why the government does not just wipe out the paramilitary units of Abadi cleric Moqrada al-Dufaz, called the Dufazi, and he responded:
 

There are a number of reasons. Seriously.  You are quite correct it could be done.  The Dufazi are well armed for a paramilitary force, but we do have the military power to do so even in our somewhat degraded condition.  But taking Bab al-Mira from the Dufazi will cause civilian casualties.  We know we may have to do it. They know we know we may have to do it.  But there is no reason that should be our first choice.
 
The General Intelligence Security Directorate (GIS) believes  Moqtada al-Dufaz wants to talk.  We know the GIS is no Kafuri GID, after all who is, but we think this report is genuine and is worth a try.
 
Which brings up a fundamental question.  Do we really want the Dufazi gone?  Certainly we want the religious thought police they protect gone; much of their activity is simply indulging in brutality as common criminals.  And we want the cleric himself to cease advocating religious murder and mutilation in the name of religion. 
 
But the Dufazi itself. At times being in a paramilitary unit or forming one has been a crime and may be again.  Illegally obtaining weaponry from the military through bribery or outright theft is certainly a crime. But being in the Dufazi, in and of itself, not so much.
 
Further, The Ahmadi State in Majatra (ASIM),  the Ahmadi State in Kafuristan (ASIK) and other extremists are out there ready to recruit if we eliminate the Dufazi.  Currently Moqtada Al-Dufaz completely dominates the Abadi armed opposition to the government. Completely.       
And our Israi population has so recoiled from the Israi foreign invasion from throughout Terra intent on terrorism and destruction several centuries ago  that is not all susceptible for the time being.
 
Further, the Abadi are a sizeable minority who are not generally Dufazi, but the Abadi as a whole do not want them massacred or imprisoned but left alone.
 
So if they want to talk, we’ll talk.  Maybe we can come to terms.

Chancellor Khalifi al-Qassem