[Dog]

This arrest warrant for Sadr has been sitting around for a few months.......what caused us to move on Sadr now.

I have a hunch.... there is something that has happened under the radar to cause this move.

[Angelus Errare]

Sadr started this latest violence after we shut down his propaganda newspaper. It was probably his stupidest move to date (and there are many), but I think that was what prompted us to rethink letting him out of the playpen. Oh, and he also openly announced he's aligning himself with Hamas and Hezbollah

Before all of this he was just a demagogue, now he's a stated enemy of the US. There are unfortunate consequences to that distinction, as I expect our Khomeini wannabe is about to learn.

[Dog Gone]

Well, Sadr is going to have a very short career. Whether he's dead or whether he's in prison, I don't think he has much time to watch reruns of Love, American Style before someone pulls the plug.

He's in that wretched suburb of Baghdad that used to be called Saddam City. Now it's Sadr City. Either way, it's a slum of despair and Sadr is the Jesse Jackson of Iraqi life today. An Arab poverty pimp with AK-47s.

[Cap Huff]

"what caused us to move on Sadr now. . . .?"

At yesterday's CPA briefing this question came up in a variety of ways, but the question was never answered directly and unequivocally unless you believe it was a coincidence:

"QUESTION: And finally, your position is definitely that this announcement of an arrest warrant, of a murder warrant for Mr. Sadr, coming 72 hours after his sermon in Kufah, is just a coincidence and that it's related exclusively to the initiative of this investigative judge?

SENOR: Absolutely. The arrest warrant has been issued some time ago, well before any sermon he gave on Friday.

QUESTION: But the announcement is now.

SENOR: I'm sorry?

QUESTION: But the announcement is now, 72 hours...

SENOR: That's correct, because we are obviously addressing this issue with regard to Mr. Yaqubi and surrounding events. "

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