A prominent Shiite member of the Iraqi parliament said in press reports Monday that the Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr "feels his life is in danger." | So he has a couple of neurons to rub together, does he? |
"It's a justifiable feeling as the US side had conducted similar operations before."
Al-Obaidy believes the US want to
There had been conflicting claims over the whereabouts of al-Sadr. The US Cable News Network (CNN) had earlier reported that al-Sadr left Iraq for Iran a few weeks ago. Then a Mahdi leader and former Shiite MP Fattah al-Sheikh denied that al-Sadr went to Iran, saying al-Sadr was in the Shiite city of Najaf.
| "Nobody can find him there, but trust us, that's where he is." |
Samy al-Askari, an advisor to the Shiite Premier Nuri al-Maliki, said that al-Sadr was currently in Tehran but was soon due to return to Iraq. But the Sadr movement denied that its leader was in the Iranian capital, with MP Saleh al-Okeili stating, "al-Sadr is currently in Iraq."
| "It's a big place. He's around somewhere." |