Sadr threatens rogue commanders of his Iraqi milit

AP ^ | 27 October 2006 | staff

[shrinkermd]

Radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has threatened rogue commanders in his Mahdi Army militia with the wrath of God, his principal mouthpiece told worshippers at prayer Friday.

The Mahdi Army is one of the most powerful armed Shiite groups in Iraq and has been implicated in a number of recent battles with police, despite orders from Sadr to his followers not to spill Iraqi blood without permission.

"This disobedience to the leadership has divided us and earned us multiple enemies," declared Sheikh Jaber al-Khafaji, the preacher who speaks for Sadr at the mosque in the central Iraqi town of Kufa.

"The directives of Muqtada al-Sadr in his speach during Eid prayers should not go unnoticed," he added, referring to the latest of Sadr's recent attempts to rein in his movement's more undisciplined cadres.

"If you do not obey, you will regret it. Indeed, I declare that you will be cursed. Sayid Muqtada al-Sadr is a blessing from God upon you and is your protector," Khafaji told the large crowd in this Shiite area

[shrinkermd]

FYI

[yldstrk]

Someone needs to do the right thing and take Sadr out.

[Steel Wolf]

Radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has threatened rogue commanders in his Mahdi Army militia with the wrath of God, his principal mouthpiece told worshippers at prayer Friday.

Sure. The wrath of God and a pat on the back.

[FreedomNeocon]

"In islamic Iraq, even the insurgencies have insurgencies" -- Yakov Smirnoff

[RicocheT]

Threatens? Moqtada al-Sadr must be yelling at his bathroom mirror if he is saying "no" to kidnap, murder and mayhem.

[reagan_fanatic]

Sadr should have been turned into a pink mist by now.

[LYSandra]

We should have taken that little MFer out when we had the chance. the problem with the war was we shouldn't have allowed the press in and we should have leveled the place and started fresh! It all got too PC.

[Prime Choice]

Someone needs to do the right thing and take Sadr out.

That "somebody" should have been us when we had the freaking chance a couple of years ago. But noooooooooooo...we've got to sacrifice our troops in the name of "cultural sensitivity!"

[aynrandfreak]

I don't like Sadr, but his rhetoric at least seems stronger than what we hear from Palestinians, for example.

[Moose4]

We should've put a bullet between Fat Mookie's eyes years ago. He wasn't even taken seriously by the other "Islamic scholars" in Iraq, FFS--too young, too inexperienced, too radical, too stupid. But because he was treated as a serious power player instead of what he really was--Tookie Williams in a turban--he *became* a power player. He stared us down from inside a mosque, and we blinked.

The Mahdi Army's nothing more than the Crips with Korans and RPG-7s. They're a giant criminal enterprise, a street gang covered in a thin coating of Islam with a thug at their head. And now, he and his al-Bloods are propping up Maliki, and he's all but inviolate. Fat Mookie is walking proof of the old saw that the longer you wait to solve a problem, the harder it's going to be to solve.

}:-)4

[Obie Wan]

Sadr,isn't this the same punk US forces had bottled up in a mosque a year or so ago? They should have wasted this maggot when they had a chance !!!

[EagleUSA]

Letting this gutter maggot stay alive was another huge mistake of this campaign.

[SueRae]

That was good. But so true.

[not2worry]

IMHO, we should have taken both Saddam and Sadr out the moment we had the opportunity. Several soldiers who have returned from Iraq say the war could have gone better if we did not have embedded journalists amongst the troops...they are forced to do what is PC. These two murders needed to be shot, not put through the judicial system or in a popularity contest.

[ANGGAPO]

I suggest that al-Sadr and his army of terrorists is at the bottom of the Baghdad mess. This dude is in bed with Iran's terrorists and a religious buddy of Iraq's president. Removing them from the picture is the way out of this stalemate.