"PH34r m3!!1"
Posted on 07/23/2006 10:20:58 PM PDT by kellynla
A senior member of Muqtada al-Sadr's Iraqi Shi'ite militia, the Mahdi Army, says the group is forming a squadron of up to 1,500 elite fighters to go to Lebanon.
The plan reflects the potential of the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah to strengthen radical elements in Iraq and neighboring countries and to draw other regional players into the Lebanon conflict.
"We are choosing the men right now," said Abu Mujtaba, who works in the loosely organized following of radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. "We are preparing the right men for the job."
Mr. Mujtaba, who was interviewed in Baghdad, said some of the men have had special training but did not specify what kind.
Sheik al-Sadr's black-clad armed militia numbers in the thousands, operates throughout central and southern Iraq and is thought to be responsible for numerous killings of Sunnis.
A rival Sunni cleric, Abdul Rahman al-Duleimi, said he knew about the militia's recruiting effort and that he had appealed to his own followers to fight Israel.
"We know that the Mahdi militia is on this issue since the Lebanon-Israeli crisis started," said Sheik al-Duleimi, whose house in Baghdad contains a large portrait of former ruler Saddam Hussein. The cleric is not related to Adnan al-Dulaimi, also a Sunni cleric and leader of a major faction in parliament.
Sheik al-Duleimi said that during prayers on Friday, he "called the people to volunteer, and if they cannot, they should donate anything. I called on people to donate even one bullet, because maybe this one bullet will kill one Israeli."
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Good...1500 more martyrs for the zionists to kill...and 15oo less badguys for our peeps to deal with...
I wonder if we can get them to take more guys....hell...take everyone....
"Mother dear, may I go swim?"
Yes, my loving daughter.
Hang your clothes out on a limb,
But don't go near the water.
My first thought upon reading the headline!
On the contrary, this is good news. They'll be wiped out in short order, which means fewer terrorists in Iraq for us to worry about.
Hire some buses to take them! It'll be cheap - we'll only have to pay for a one-way trip.
We should offer to provide the transport. Slow moving troop transport trucks that Israel could MOAB upon entry into Lebanon. The trucks would be a good investment.
I imagine Sadr's definition of "elite" is quite a bit different than that of the Israeli army. They'll figure that out when they get there.
They've got quite a bit of Iraq to travel through and their numbers could be lessened while still at home. Just a thought.
Not getting rid of Al-Sadr was a huge mistake. We all said it at the time and it is coming to fruition now. He has been able to gestate and grow stonger over time.
being a realist is a cross we must bear I guess...
Idealists and alarmists cant seem to do simple math...
"Hire some buses to take them!"
...with GPS tracking devices and signs painted on the roofs saying "Drop bombs here" in Hebrew.
The first thing that'll go through their mind is, their teeth!
Go get em IDF!!!!!!!
Make it 5,000 and the US should provide them with the transportation
Y'all come y'hear? Israel has plenty of bulldozers. Great for digging mass graves to dump unidentified foreign objects.
"Coalition should have wiped him out when they had him"
One of many similar mistakes by our PC state dept.
Hopefully these symbolic gestures will end up being harmless - - I mean, no way do we let any of these nuts up in the air.
There goes the damage deposit. ;^)
"PH34r m3!!1"
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