Posted on 03/29/2008 4:16:08 PM PDT by rocksblues
BAGHDAD (AP) — A feisty Muqtada al-Sadr, making his first public appearance since May, said in a TV interview aired Saturday that he was in almost total control of the Mahdi Army and that the "liberation" of Iraq was his militia's chief goal.
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Al-Sadr is widely thought to be spending his time between Iran's holy city of Qom and Najaf, another holy Shiite city south of Baghdad. But nothing in the room where the interview took place offered a hint of his location.
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In the interview, al-Sadr said the militia's "strategic objective" was "the liberation of Iraq from the occupier," meaning the Americans. He outlined the aims of his political movement, saying he wants to rid Iraq of sectarian politics, prevent its breakup and create an Islamic society.
Mahdi Army commanders say their militia has been taking delivery of arms and cash from Iran, but al-Sadr sought to distance himself from the Iranians, saying he has recently told Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini, that he did not approve of the "political and military interests" that Tehran pursued in Iraq.
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It is time for this guy to get his 72 virgins and mother-in-laws and my they be ugly, ugly, ugly.
Bush doesn’t have the brass anymore to authorize a hit on this sleeze-bag.
According to the recent PBS “Frontline” program about the Iraq war, Bush had a chance to take the guy out earlier in the war when al-Sadr had only a handful of thugs. Bush et al. didn’t take the opportunity, and now al-Sadr is a bigger pain in the neck...
His avowed goal is to overthrow the elected government of Iraq and Iran is complacent
I beleive we will see an attack on Iran in the VERY near future
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993713/posts
Taking out a prominent religious figure such as Mookie would have had caused a sh!t storm amongst his followers. The Iraqi’s tried dealing with him but now it’s time to vaporise him and anyone else who doesn’t want to play along.
Exactly!
“I am the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz. ...”
Its never too late. That is why this fat slob hides like a rat in a sewer.
Speaking of Qom:
http://off-topic.internet-haganah.com/archives/001323.html
January 13, 2008
“HOT TIMES IN THE RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS OF QOM...”
Well, they are getting their rear ends handed to them, so how do you think you're doing, you fat creep.
Speaking of Al Sadr...
QUOTE:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981084/posts?page=1324#1324
OPINION: Well now, this sure sounds like a no-no Al-Sadr.
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Note: The following news brief is a quote:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3524897,00.html
Radical Shiite cleric al-Sadr says Arabs meeting in Syria must support resistance
Published: 03.29.08, 12:15 / Israel News
Anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has called on Arab leaders meeting in Syria to voice their support for Iraq’s “resistance” To what he calls foreign occupation.
Al-Jazeera television has shown a brief clip of an interview with the Mahdi Army militia leader. The broadcast is the first word from the reclusive Iraqi cleric since Iraq’s government launched a crackdown against Shiite militia violence in the southern oil port of Basra earlier this week. (AP)
1,324 posted on 03/29/2008 4:45:27 AM PDT by Cindy
From what I hear the Iraqi forces are having a tough time, of course this is from MSM news sources.
His breathing is a mistake that has to be rectified.
Maybe Mookie just needs some more cookies and he wouldn’t be such a monster.
Iraq to Iran to Iraq to Iran to Syria.....
I don’t know.
Probably the same way Saad bin Laden travels, I suppose.
That's an important caveat. Reading around the net, I think this may not be going too badly, although it is a tough fight. We're using air power and our trainers, the Brits came in with their artillery, and the Iraqis are not backing down. If Maliki doesn't lose his nerve, I am hopeful.
“But nothing in the room where the interview took place offered a hint of his location.”
I’m thinking The Towers at the Bellagio.
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