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Iraq
Moqtada warns of consequences to detaining or assassinating him
2003-10-26
"Lookit me! I'm important, dammit!"
The Iraqi Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr said he is facing the dangers if detention and assassination by what he called the common enemy.
That's us, of course...
He added in Friday's sermon in al-Kofa mosque that his followers made their duty in defending him and they have become free if they want to leave him.
"Moqtada, we will defend you with our blood!"
For his part, member of the Muslim scholars commission Abdul Salam al-Kubeisi attacked the Governing Council in Iraq. He said that the US had established it to be a barrier between it and the oppressed people. He, in principle, voiced support for the initiative launched by the Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr to form a government alternative for the current Iraqi government.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#4  I hope you're right SH; otherwise this ass can become the next Khomeini
Posted by: NotMikeMoore   2003-10-26 11:30:03 PM  

#3  The dentist from Healing Iraq doesn't understand why the America doesn't whack Moqtada and reinstitue the death penalty until the horde of criminals that Sadaam freed are taken care of. I think the answer is that the US has rigid ROE and and is letting Moqtada discredit all the hard-liners through his stupidity.
Ultimately, Moqtada is too young to be respected so he is poisoning his own well for older militant kooks. The Iraqis will eventually take care of the clown. My impression from Zeyed's blog is that in Baghdad, the Iraqis are taking more and more control on their own initiative.
Posted by: Super Hose   2003-10-26 11:38:44 AM  

#2  I wonder how many of his followers will stay and protect him in the face of several dozen Bradleys and half a dozen A1M2 Abrahams?
Posted by: Charles   2003-10-26 11:29:50 AM  

#1  I'd take those consequences as acceptable
Posted by: Frank G   2003-10-26 11:17:29 AM  

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