>>A good start. Iraqi citizens starting to speak up
That was the plan :)
Posted on 09/10/2004 9:45:04 PM PDT by ETERNAL WARMING
ABOUT 1000 protesters marched through Najaf's old quarter today to demand that Moqtada Sadr and his aides leave this holy city ravaged by fighting between the radical cleric's followers and US and Iraqi troops.
Chanting, "Moqtada, the trash, is a leader of looters", the demonstrators walked past buildings hit by three weeks of fighting and insisted that Sadr's office be shut down. Iraqi soldiers prevented the protesters from marching to Sadr's office.
They also demanded that the Iraqi government investigate the practices of a religious court that Sadr's office operated and punish those in charge of it.
The court, which worked separately from Iraq's legal system, ordered arrests and handed out punishments. It stopped functioning after Sadr's followers relinquished the control they had in areas here as part of a peace agreement to end the violence.
Sheik Ali Smeisim, an aide to Sadr, said the demonstration was an attempt to create tensions.
"We were expecting such things," he said. "Whenever there is a chance for peaceful solutions, some people hold protests to escalate the situation."
The latest bout of violence in Najaf lasted for three weeks and ended only when Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, brokered a peace deal here last month.
The clashes left many streets, markets and buildings in Najaf in ruins and damaged the city's economy.
Yesterday, Iraqi forces entered Sadr's office to search for weapons.
GET A ROPE AND HANG THE SOB...
A good start. Iraqi citizens starting to speak up and say "enough"
BTTT
It's starting to work..
Now, I want hear BEES swarming to Tehran and Damascus and the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan...
B1s, B2s, B52s, buzzing to break the backs of the tyrants still actively threatening the civilized world in the name of 'Allahu Fubar'.
Islamofascists, we're rolling on and coming for you...
Very positive.
If the Iraqi's want a free and peaceful society, they have to be the ones to stand up and say so. We can back them up militarily but it has to be their decision.
BTTT
this could be the beginning of a great American victory.
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