He’s playing with fire.
Fine. Let him have it then. Be rid of him once and for all.
PRESSURE ON SADR AND IRANIAN-BACKED SPECIAL GROUPS CONTINUES
By Bill Roggio Feb.18, 2008 2:49 AM
As previously reported at The Long War Journal, US and Iraqi forces have stepped up operations against the Iranian-backed and Mahdi Army-linked Special Groups terror cells. The increase in activity comes as Muqtada al Sadr is deliberating the reinstatement or cancellation of the self-imposed cease-fire.
Since the last report, the US military has singled out a former Mahdi Army commander as being behind violence in northern Baghdad while a senior spokesman said Iran is still supporting terror operations in Iraq. “The intent of Iran in supporting the training and financing [the Special Groups] we believe continues,” said Rear Admiral Gregory Smith, the director of Multinational Forces Iraq’s Communication Division. “In just the past week, Iraqi and coalition forces captured 212 weapons caches across Iraq, two of those coming from here inside Baghdad, with growing links to the Iranian-backed special groups.”
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/02/pressure_on_sadr_and.php
You’d think this looser would have driven past an IED in the last 6 months.
Is he trying to influence the elections here - get a “cut n’run” candidate elected by bloodying things up for a spell ?
Is Mookie still hiding out in Iran? If he drives back to Iraq, he should be greeted by an IED.
The writer has wildly inflated Sadr’s influence and is obviously blithely ignorant to facts on the ground. Probably written from a hotel room in Kuwait.
The US missed the opportunity to take this guy down in 2004, when Sistani purposely looked the other way. Back then he was just another hoodlum with a crew. Now he has become a larger political force.
Can we just shoot this guy and be done with him? He’s a real pain in the ass.