“Nothing Less Than Being The Leader Of All Iraq”
American Spectator:
Since just after the American invasion of Iraq the same question has been asked repeatedly: “Who is Muktada al-Sadr?” The answer that followed usually posed even more questions.
This bearded, dark-eyed, never smiling, rotund, neophyte cleric inherited everything he has — power, prestige and, to a certain extent, wealth. He is the remaining son of the al Sadr, an Arab family of powerful, Iraqi Shia clerics. His father, Ayatollah Sadeq al-Sadr, assassinated by order of Saddam Hussein in 1999, had created a network of charitable institutions that provided a financial and organizational basis for a resistance structure. This instrument was comprised of the Shia of the Baghdad slums, the provincial tribes south of the capital city, and the mullahs of the holy cities of Nawaz and Karbala.
The Americans took Baghdad and soon found in June ‘03 that a militia group had been formed known as the Mahdi Army. It has since grown to be one of the major military forces in Baghdad, primarily in the impoverished neighborhoods of what is now called Sadr City.
What is newly developing, however, is a recognition of the objective of Muktada al-Sadr’s ambition. The rival Badr Militia, loyal to Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Sayid al-Hakim, seek to control the southern provinces’ oil producing areas along with a share of power in metropolitan Baghdad. Al-Sadr, on the other hand, appears to be willing to settle for nothing less than being the leader of all Iraq.
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rofl @ the pig nose. Suits him well.
September 7th, 2007 at 4:48 amkill him, kill him now.
September 7th, 2007 at 4:55 amI like many would prefer for Mookie to be relegated to nothing but his deserved bug-like status on the windshield of history.
Leader of all Iraq? Silly meat head go back and sit at the kiddies table and scrub them fangs. You can at least afford a toothbrush with all of my tax dollars you have stolen. Prick!
September 7th, 2007 at 6:16 amNice pic. He looks like a little piggy.
Kingmaker or King? He’s neither. Dick sucker or dick is more like it. He needs to go. He should be on the HVT list.
September 7th, 2007 at 8:19 amAnd I don’t mean the “arrest list”. I mean the other list.
I seriously start twitching when I see Mookie. It defies the workings of my brain to try and understand why he is still alive, and that he might continue to be so for any length of time.
September 7th, 2007 at 11:23 am