Posted on 05/21/2016 5:34:29 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Baghdad Wakes to Sounds of Helicopters, Talk of a People’s 'Revolt'
Sharon Behn
May 21, 2016 4:58 AM
BAGHDAD—
Baghdad woke Saturday to the early morning sounds of helicopters flying overhead, most of them heading in and out of the fortified International Zone after protesters defied bullets and tear gas to storm the area.
As they fled the gunfire and tear gas Friday afternoon, some carrying their injured friends across the bridge away from the IZ, the anti-government protesters vowed they would return – but with weapons.
Many are followers of Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr who, like many of the political leaders in Iraq, has his own armed militia known as the Peace Brigades.
Sadr has come out in support of what he describes as the people’s “revolt” against the government
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And we have the former US Secretary of State running on her record. The world is falling apart.
We should have offed Mookie a decade ago.
Thanks 0bama! Thanks, Hillary!
*SPIT*
>>>Many are followers of Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr who, like many of the political leaders in Iraq, has his own armed militia known as the Peace Brigades.<<<
PEACE BRIGADES!
That is what they call themselves? Ha! Too funny.
Not this guy again.
Peace is that brief glorious moment in history,
when everybody stands around reloading.
The tomb is peaceful.
Things are speeding up
They see 6 more months as their opportunity before their US President ally Odumbass is out of power
Heh, not for long.
Bremer should have taken out that Mookie turd from the punchbowl, long ago.
Pro-Iran Sadr Shiite agitators on a power grab. The guy’s a tyrant-wannabe and a semi-literate idiot. Imo this situation is a Good Thing. If/when the government-in-hiding decides they have to have more US support to put them down they will need to re-write and authorize US support agreements. Not sure this administration will approve that but ultimately the Apaches will be unleashed and Sadr’s fools will die just as they did in Najaf and Karbala in ‘04.
Stupid white bread Ivy Leaguers in the State Dept thought inside every gook is an American waiting to be free (Full Metal Jacket). Democracy can be a dangerous thing.
Yep! We knew he was a troublemaker.
It is WAY past time for al-Sadr to have an “accident” while transiting a pen filled with hungry hogs....
No body...
No “martyrs” funeral.
Pro-Iran Sadr Shiite agitators on a power grab. The guy’s a tyrant-wannabe and a semi-literate idiot. Imo this situation is a Good Thing. If/when the government-in-hiding decides they have to have more US support to put them down they will need to re-write and authorize US support agreements. Not sure this administration will approve that but ultimately the Apaches will be unleashed and Sadr’s fools will die just as they did in Najaf and Karbala in ‘04.
Apaches? More likely the kenyan does near nothing and hands Iraq to Iran.
Could it be the long-overdue coup?
Yep, when he first popped his head up it should have been popped with a 7.62x51.
US snipers had Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr(Mookie) in their sights at a “holy place” many years ago. The Condi Rice and Pentagon lawyers denied them a green light. W’s Fault.
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