Moqtada Tateral-Sadr
... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah...
has proposed a roadmap for the period following the anticipated liberation of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
from Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
, setting the withdrawal of foreign troops as a condition.
In a statement by his office on Monday, the firebrand
...
firebrandsare noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments...
holy man set out a 29-point roadmap for political and social co-existence in Iraq following the recapture of Iraq’s second largest city from the krazed killer group. Among those points was a demand for the Iraqi government to urge "occupier troops, even the so-called friendly ones, from Iraqi territories so as to preserve the state’ prestige and illusory sovereignty," as he put it.
Al-Sadr has been a central player in the political and militancy scene in Iraq, and had for sometime, following the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, been branded an enemy to the United States, being an ardent opponent to foreign military presence in the country.
The U.S. maintains nearly 5000 soldiers in Iraq, and is leading a 65-state international military coalition to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Other aspects of Sadr’s proposition include exclusive mandates for Iraqi government forces to take hold of recaptured Iraqi regions. He also demanded United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
-sponsored elections, a special body for minority affairs in Iraq and a national reconciliation debate.