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Court Issues Warrant For Sadr...
...FNC is running a briefing right now from Baghdad where they just announced that the Good Mullah is now wanted on an arrest warrant signed by an Iraqi judge.

Here we go...

Mike

More, from Associated Press:
An Iraqi judge has issued a murder arrest warrant for a radical Shiite Muslim cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, for the slaying of another Shiite leader shortly after the U.S.-led invasion of the country. Coalition spokesman Dan Senor announced the warrant but would not say when al-Sadr would be detained. "There'll be no advance warning," he said. The announcement of the warrant came a day after violent clashes between militiamen loyal to al-Sadr that killed 52 Iraqis, eight U.S. soldiers and a Salvadoran soldier — some of the worst gunbattles since the ouster of Saddam Hussein. Since the violence, al-Sadr has been holed up in a mosque in the city of Kufa, south of Baghdad, surrounded by armed supporters.
I'm curious as to whether he's hopping up and down and saying "Oooh! This is sooo neat! I'm gonna be dictator!" or if he realizes he's screwed the pooch and he's peeing his drawers. How long until he bolts for Iran?
Senor said the arrest warrant had been issued several months ago. He refused to say why al-Sadr had not been arrested earlier.
Letting him hang himself?
Al-Sadr is accused in the slaying of Abdel-Majid al-Khoei, a rival Shiite cleric who was stabbed to death by a mob at a Shiite shrine in the city of Najaf in April. A total of 25 arrest warrants have been issued in the case, and 13 suspects have been taken into custody. Sunday's violence in Baghdad and other cities was sparked by the arrest last week of Mustafa al-Yacoubi, a senior aide to al-Sadr, on one of the warrants.
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2004-04-05
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