Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr said compromise with the US-led occupation army would not work.
| I don't think it will, either. Go ahead and kill him. |
Sadr appeared in public for the first time in two weeks at Kufa's grand mosque on the outskirts of Najaf warning US forces massed in a desert area nearby that they are "forbidden" to enter Shiite holy cities. "We will not allow the forces of occupation to enter Najaf and the holy sites because they are forbidden places for them," said Sadr in a spittle-spewing fiery sermon. "I say that they are here to stay and will occupy us for many years and as such compromise will not work." As Sadr spoke, scores of his banned Mehdi Army militiamen milled outside brandishing Kalashnikov assault rifles and making faces missile launchers. |