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Iraqi cleric’s aide ’dies in raid’
Beginning to feel a little heat, Sadr?
Coalition forces are reported to have killed a deputy of Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical Shiite cleric whose militia has launched a suicide mission an uprising against U.S.-led troops in Baghdad’s Sadr City and Iraq’s southern cities. Four other fellow terrorists associates died in Saturday’s raid on the cleric’s Hillah offices along with Adnan al-Anbaky -- al-Sadr’s top deputy in the central Iraq town, according to an al-Sadr spokesman in Najaf, Sayid Hussam al-Hassani. Al-Hassani said on Sunday the offices in Hillah, about 50 miles (80 km) south of Baghdad, housed a human torture rights organization run by al-Sadr.

The coalition’s top civilian administrator, Paul Bremer, has accused al-Sadr of "attempting to establish his authority in place of the legitimate authority of the Iraqi government and the coalition." However, the U.S. military is continuing to try to broker a deal with al-Sadr, who is reported to be holed up with his militia in a mosque in Najaf. A spokesman for the head maggot in charge cleric, who is wanted for the killing of a rival cleric last year, said on Saturday he received a delegation of community and tribal leaders in an effort to stall indefinitely "to solve the current situation peacefully."
We need to crank up this sort of heat a whole lot more. The current disengagement does not seem to be truly productive. I guess we’ll have to wait and see just how quickly the supply of Iraqi policemen runs out. At least the locals will finally get a chance to witness Iraqi on Iraqi violence up front and well documented.
Posted by: Zenster 2004-05-02
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