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US troops will leave Iraq “in coffins”: Sadr aide
AFP ^ | January 12 2007

Posted on 01/12/2007 7:39:55 AM PST by jmc1969

A senior ally of radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada Al Sadr warned on Friday that thousands of the planned 21,500 extra US troops en route for the war-torn nation would “go home in coffins”.

Launching a new strategy to rescue Iraq from civil war, Washington told the government of Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki, who owes his job to Sadr, it was on “borrowed time” and declared new “no holds barred” military operations.

A cornerstone of the new approach is increased pressure on Iraq’s neighbours Iran and Syria -- which are accused by Washington of fomenting unrest -- and tougher action to deal with militias such as Sadr’s feared Mahdi Army.

“The American people have to prevent their sons from coming to Iraq or they may return in coffins,” threatened Sheikh Abdel Razzaq al-Nadawi, a senior official in Sadr’s movement, slamming the planned US troop increase.

His threat compounded tensions over the detention of five Iranians in a US swoop on an official building earmarked as a consulate in Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, which Tehran branded a breach of international law.

Sheikh Jaber Al Khafaji, another close Sadr aide, also slammed the new US strategy during his Friday sermon in the Shiite holy city of Kufa.

“The Sadr movement rejects the new mundane policies. Their new strategy targets the faithful and believers who rejected the occupation, injustice and bondage,” he told worshippers.

(Excerpt) Read more at khaleejtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iraq; irbilraid; killsadr; moqtadaalsadr
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1 posted on 01/12/2007 7:39:57 AM PST by jmc1969
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To: jmc1969

Why isn't this guy dead?


2 posted on 01/12/2007 7:41:41 AM PST by Always Right
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To: jmc1969
4 1/2 years into this mess Bush decides to take the gloves off.

That says it all.

3 posted on 01/12/2007 7:42:18 AM PST by zarf
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To: jmc1969

Where's Mookie been? 3000 have already done so. The decision to not eliminate this shameful waste of oxygen when he was in the US crosshairs in 2004 was regrettable.


4 posted on 01/12/2007 7:42:39 AM PST by sono (For everyone but America the free world is mostly a free ride. - Mark Steyn)
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To: sono

This guy is the enemy..take him out without prior notice to the Iraqi's..or Kurds.


5 posted on 01/12/2007 7:43:39 AM PST by Oldexpat
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To: jmc1969

He sounds like a democrat


6 posted on 01/12/2007 7:44:27 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: jmc1969
“The Sadr Pelosi movement rejects the new mundane policies. Their new strategy targets the faithful and believers who rejected the occupation, injustice and bondage,”
7 posted on 01/12/2007 7:44:30 AM PST by frogjerk (REUTERS: We give smoke and mirrors a bad name)
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To: jmc1969

Time for Mookie to receive some lead poisoning...like a double tap to his forehead.


8 posted on 01/12/2007 7:44:44 AM PST by RexBeach (In war there is no substitute for victory. - Douglas MacArthur)
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To: Oldexpat

That's a big ten-four.


9 posted on 01/12/2007 7:44:52 AM PST by sono (For everyone but America the free world is mostly a free ride. - Mark Steyn)
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To: jmc1969

They said body bags earlier, what is it muzzies, coffins or body bags. How bout if we send you muzzies back in sandwich bags.


10 posted on 01/12/2007 7:44:52 AM PST by eastforker (.308 SOCOM 16, hottest brand going.2350 FPS muzlim velocity)
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To: jmc1969
Sadr's aides on MSNBC? CNN? Dems? ABCCBSNBC? Or the NYT? WP? PBS?

Maybe Hagel or Boxer?

So many snivelers in the US its hard to figure out just who these aides really are.
11 posted on 01/12/2007 7:45:56 AM PST by roses of sharon
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Sadr ought to leave Iraq in a hog carcass - make that a Hogzilla carcass, considering Sadr's size.


12 posted on 01/12/2007 7:46:43 AM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: jmc1969

MORE SURGE, Moqtada Al Sadr needs killing.

My New Tag Line


13 posted on 01/12/2007 7:46:43 AM PST by IrishMike (MORE SURGE, Moqtada Al Sadr needs killing.)
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His threat compounded tensions over the detention of five Iranians in a US swoop on an official building earmarked as a consulate in Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, which Tehran branded a breach of international law.

How exactly would his "threat" (empty bloviating, imho) compound alleged "tensions" over the Iranian spies and troublemakers. And they were NOT in a consulate (not that I care much). Dumb sentence.

14 posted on 01/12/2007 7:46:58 AM PST by Bahbah (.Regev, Goldwasser & Shalit, we are praying for you.)
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To: Oldexpat

when did Sadr declare HE was Iraq and their singular spokesman?


15 posted on 01/12/2007 7:47:19 AM PST by himno hero
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To: Bahbah

Tehran is the last place that should be complaining about assaults on diplomatic buildings.


16 posted on 01/12/2007 7:49:24 AM PST by Dog Gone
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To: zarf
"4 1/2 years into this mess Bush decides to take the gloves off.
That says it all."

What does it say Zarf?

17 posted on 01/12/2007 7:49:56 AM PST by Artemis Webb (All Truth is God's Truth...regardless of the source.)
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Oh so he admits to causing deaths and intending more??

That ought to earn him his own 500lb laser guided bomb....
18 posted on 01/12/2007 7:49:59 AM PST by wodinoneeye
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To: eastforker
How bout if we send you muzzies back in sandwich bags.

Or pig intestines.

19 posted on 01/12/2007 7:50:37 AM PST by Last Laugh (We the People are in charge, so let's act like it!)
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To: jmc1969
A senior ally of radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada Al Sadr warned on Friday that thousands of the planned 21,500 extra US troops en route for the war-torn nation would “go home in coffins”.

And we will drop a MOAB on yo' smelly, turbanized, empty-wagon-rattle punkin' head...

Blow your beard right off your face...

OR....

Just give one Marine a mission order and a bullet

20 posted on 01/12/2007 7:50:58 AM PST by Wings-n-Wind (The answers remain available; Wisdom is obtained by asking all the right questions!)
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