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Iraq-Jordan
Al-Sadr declares Hudna
2004-06-26
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

#15  The new & 'pre-owned' Hudna & Camel Car Lot has been secured by the Marines for the time being.

Once things cool down, the first 100 customers to show up on opening day will win a FREE NEW HUDNA V8 Limited Broughham, and 50 lbs of free imported camel feed ..........as well :)
Posted by: Mark Espinola   2004-06-26 11:39:59 PM  

#14  I still think fallujah would look better pounded flat with artillery and paved over as a parking lot. the algerians did it to one of there own citys in the 80's during a islamic rebellion and effectivly crushed it. we should have done the same, if for no other reason than they made us learn how to spell fallujah.bastards.


"I could'a been at a B-B-Q! instead you got me dragging your heavy ass through the burning deasert...and what the hell is that smell!"
Will Smith, independance day
Posted by: Anonymous5401   2004-06-26 2:19:08 PM  

#13  To be fair to our troops and the administration, what happened in Fallujah was a group of Interim Government officers and some tribal leaders and moderate clerics came forward with a plan to stop the fighting in Fallujah. 'Tater didn't keep his word and anyway, I think there are too many foreign fighters in Fallujah for him to control, the number one being Zarqawi. No one is going to control Zarqawi. Tater got in way over his head by starting this and thinking he could control Al Queda and the Iranians. I think we had to give the Iraquis a chance to clean this up on their own but I think they also understimated the ammount of outside influence here.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2004-06-26 1:23:37 PM  

#12  It's not so much that we were played for fools as that the Iraqis themselves have to be allowed to some to the conclusion he is a bag of shit and an Iranian tool.
Posted by: too true   2004-06-26 1:15:36 PM  

#11  Am I the only one who thinks this might have already happened once before? And that he played us for fools then?
Posted by: The Doctor   2004-06-26 1:12:14 PM  

#10  We will see,as we sleep with one eye open.
Posted by: Raptor   2004-06-26 9:54:45 AM  

#9  Take this with a grain of salt but "Tater" is now telling everyone who will listen that the Mahdi Army is against the foreign fighters who he used to claim were never in Fallujah and he is telling them to leave. Sounds like he invited more foreign fighters in than he could manage, didn't take in to account how much better trained they are than his Mahdi Army, and has been pushed out for control of Fallujah. He thought he was a major player but wasn't ready for the REAL harboyzand has made thing worse in Fallujah than they were. I think this may be why our troops are getting such good intelligence on safe houses.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2004-06-26 7:55:29 AM  

#8  The trouble with buying a used Hudna is that they tend to have scorch marks from IEDs and the back seat always smells like goats.
Posted by: SteveS   2004-06-26 2:42:13 AM  

#7  ~The 2004 Hudna~

This new Iraqi SUV is fully fully loaded! On sale now at Akmid's Used Camel & New Car Lot.

They are going fast ...so ....come ..on ...down!
Posted by: Mark Espinola   2004-06-26 1:57:19 AM  

#6  Your fries sir and your Hudna is coming. Could you pull forward until your Hudna is ready?
Posted by: Lucky   2004-06-26 1:45:10 AM  

#5  I'll take two Hudna and an order of fries.
Posted by: Capt America   2004-06-26 1:41:32 AM  

#4  Hunda Shmunda, this schmuck butcher is on borrowed time and knows it.

Any odds? Any takers? Two weeks tops, and Al-Sadr is Islamic burned toast!
Posted by: Mark Espinola   2004-06-26 1:27:03 AM  

#3  Arabs talk a lot just to make noise. To borrow a Democratic phrase, "they're all hat and no cattle." The survivors of his Mahdi Army are trying desperately to ignore the fact that they were almost exterminated without achieving much but a few newspaper headlines.
Posted by: RWV   2004-06-26 1:24:29 AM  

#2  We want the that chubby little, pedophile, goat fucking bearded punk, DEAD!!
Posted by: Long Hair Republican   2004-06-26 1:23:07 AM  

#1  
We want the transfer of authority to unfold peacefully
And we want the transfer of Sadr's fat ass from mosque to jail - peacefully is optional.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2004-06-26 1:11:20 AM  

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