Cleric's Aide Says Captured Females Can Be Slaves

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Cleric's Aide Says Captured Females Can Be Slaves BASRA, Iraq May 7, 2004 — A senior aide of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr told worshippers during a Friday sermon in southern Iraq that anyone capturing a female British soldier can keep her as a slave.

Click here for Enduring Freedom news headlines The aide, Sheik Abdul-Sattar al-Bahadli, also called on supporters to launch jihad, or holy war, against British troops in this southern city.

He offered money to anyone capturing or killing a member of the Governing Council, the widely unpopular interim administration appointed by the U.S.-led occupation 10 months ago.

Al-Bahadli, al-Sadr's chief representative in southern Iraq, spoke at al-Hawi mosque in central Basra.

It was the first time any anti-occupation activist of note publicly offered financial reward for the killing or capturing of coalition troops.

That offer likely will be viewed by occupation authorities with concern at a time of rising anti-occupation sentiment and continuing fighting between al-Sadr's al-Mahdi Army militia and U.S. forces in the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala.

A wave of kidnappings last month saw scores of foreign nationals snatched by insurgents and shadowy groups across Iraq.

Al-Bahadli kept an assault rifle next to him as he spoke to an estimated 3,000 worshippers, occasionally lifting it as he screamed "jihad!," and "Allahu Akbar!," or "God is greatest!"

He held what he said were documents and photographs of three Iraqi women being raped at British-run prisons in Iraq.

He also accused British forces in Basra of failing to honor agreements not to patrol inside the city and to stop harassing al-Sadr supporters in Basra.

Al-Bahadli said 250,000 dinars _ about $350 _ will be given to anyone capturing a British soldier and 100,000 dinars _ or $150 _ to anyone killing one.

He also called on government departments in Basra to display pictures of al-Sadr in their offices.

In Fallujah, a Sunni hotbed of anti-occupation resistance west of Baghdad, an estimated 400 al-Sadr supporters from Najaf, Karbala and Baghdad prayed at one of the city's main Sunni mosques in a symbolic act of solidarity.

Shiites form a majority in Iraq but were oppressed for decades by a Sunni Arab minority until Saddam Hussein's ouster a year ago. Sunnis have been embittered by their loss of power to Shiites in post-Saddam Iraq.

But last month's siege of Fallujah by U.S. Marines and al-Sadr's standoff with the Americans have brought the two sects together, with al-Sadr posters now in Fallujah and Shiites sending relief supplies to the city.

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nutz

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Religion of peace, my a$$.

[dalebert]

We need to kill these guys.

[2banana]

Well, as long as they don't humiliate her, the world would not care in the least...

[Constitution Day]

I'll be waiting for the outrage from NOW.








Good thing I'm not holding my breath.

[JamesA]

Pull our troops back, way back and introduce these jerko's to Mr. Moab and friends.

[kissmyconservativebutt]

We need to pull our troops out and MX that place.

[KriegerGeist]

They should get all the American women out of Iraq.
Then, shoot the "cleric" and all his aides and militia members...and who else did I forget?

[Delbert]

the fact that this fat a$$ Sadr is still walking around breathing is ridiculous in itself. He needs killin.

[airborne]

No big surprise. Their own women are all slaves.
These guys are a bunch of sexually frustrated bullies.

[R. Scott]

Desperation?

[capydick]

...anyone capturing a female British soldier can keep her as a slave.

And, as we speak, the RATS in the Senate are trying to tear this country apart because of the way we treated a few terrorists.

[Sub-Driver]

will they apologize some day? where's the Red Cross? 60 Minutes? Dan Blather? Kofi? Kerry's UN. FRANCE!

[TexasGreg]

While we whip outsleves, beat on our Military command, and the Democraps use this as political fodder to attack our President and his subordinates, al-Sadr says stuff like this and the muslims are SILENT in disagreement.

Where is the outcry over this Islamic support for gender-SLAVERY!? Where are the feminists?? They're attacking our President, and supporting scum like this.

[forYourChildrenVote4Bush]

I agree, If they ever capture a woman, watch out for CNN - 1 day in the news than WHAM gone!

My new line:

Hollywood, get back to what you do best, snort,fu(k, abuse, drink and sodomize! SCREW THEM ALL!

[cherry]

religions that promote the degradation of females or the treatment of women as barter are always popular with men.......

especially stupid men and men that feel they need to control other humans to feel like a big man himself.....very similar to racism ...

[Rokurota]

Oh, they could humiliate them, too. The world wouldn't care...unless it is a U.S. soldier doing the "humiliating."

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

"Religion of peace, my a$$."

My thoughts exactly!

[Hodar]

Pull our troops back, way back and introduce these jerko's to Mr. Moab and friends.

And we can thank Mr. Peanut for making the Neutron Bomb a banned weapon. Just think, we could Neutron nuke the place; leaving the schools, hospitals, generators and utilities in place. Haul off the garbage; and it would be liveable. And we could repeat as necessary.

[Peach]

As long as the press doesn't take pictures, no one in the Democrat party will care a whit if a female American soldier is made a slave to the jihadists.