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Al-Sadr declares Hudna
RADICAL Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr’s armed militia sought to prove it served Iraq’s national interest today as it laid down its weapons and backed the country’s interim government in the run-up to self rule on June 30.
OK, now SHOOT HIM WHILE YOU HAVE THE CHANCE!!!!!!! It’s a HUDNA ie: it’s a trap!
Thank you, Admiral Akbar...
"There will not be a transfer of power to the Iraqi authorities," Sheikh Aws al-Khafaji said at prayers in the Baghdad Shiite slum of Sadr City.
oh, and why is that? please tell us what you know
"But so the Americans cannot say the Mehdi Army has prevented the transfer of power, we will follow the Marjaiya’s (senior Shiite clerics) orders and see what they (the Americans) truly do."
Legitimate targets for assassination to prevent the rise of an Islamofascist satelite state of Iran: the Marjaiya, Al-Sadr, Mehdi Army.
Before prayers, the Mehdi Army militia’s central committee read off the terms of its truce to the hundreds arriving to worship at the Hekmat mosque, the day after around 90 people were killed in a rebel offensive across central and northern Iraq. "We want to show that we are not committing the terrorist attacks in Iraq and that our resistance is an honourable struggle against colonisation," said Sadr official Naim al-Kaabi. "We want the transfer of authority to unfold peacefully."
shoot them now while we have the chance
Iraqi analyst Adel Rauf, a specialist on Iraq’s Shiite majority community, said Sadr’s movement did not want to be blamed for the upheaval now shaking the country.
he’d rather sit back and reap the benefits. Or maybe he just realises we’d crush him if he continued to fight. ie: a hudna. a tactical retreat to regroup forces for another assault.
"Shoot them. Shoot them both." Nazi Goon in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Posted by: Anon1 2004-06-26
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