Radical Iraqi Shiite leader calls on his armed followers to capture Saddam Hussein `dead or alive`

Haaretz ^ | 10/29/03 | Haaretz

[Mark Felton]

In the breaking news window at Haaretz:

Radical Iraqi Shi`ite leader Moqtada al-Sadr calls on his armed followers to capture Saddam Hussein `dead or alive`

[Tunehead54]

Sadr isnt to be trusted....if his minions get Saddam first he will want a place at the table.

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That's all right. Once Saddam is toast he can have a nice dinner "capped" off by a nice exploding cigar.

;-)

[katana]

Maybe it's finally getting through to them that the longer Saddam's at large the longer it will take for things to settle out in the Sunni Triangle and the longer American Army and Marine boots will be on the ground in Iraq.

I'm sure they want us out asap to pave the way for an Islamic Republic, but in the sense that the enemy of my enemy is my friend (at least until enemy no. 2 is dead) I have no immediate problem with the Shiites sending out a posse to get the man who murdered a few hundred thousand of their people.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Urinate? Pretty crude approach there. I suspect that your parents didn't bother much with your social skills.

[TexKat]

And lets not forget this one. These guys cannot wait for us to get the hell up out of there so they can take over.

Sharif Ali bin Hussein speaks to the press following a meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Faruq al-Sharaa, at the foreign ministry in Damascus.(AFP/Louai Beshara)

Pretender to Iraq throne calls on anti-US militants to spare civilians

DAMASCUS (AFP) - A pretender to Iraq's former throne, Sharif Ali bin Hussein, called on the militants waging a guerrilla war against the US-led coalition to spare civilians.

"The Iraqi people have suffered for a long time ... we call on the resistance fighters not to target civilians or Iraqi institutions," he told journalists after talks with Foreign Minister Faruq al-Shara.

"This methods is not productive, it makes casualties among innocents," he said, reacting to a series of bomb blasts in Baghdad on Monday which killed at least 43 people and wounded more than 200 others, according to hospitals and the US military.

The suicide attacks took place in the space of 45 minutes and targeted the offices of the International Committee for the Red Cross and four police stations across the city.

Last week, Sharif Ali said the Iraqi resistance to US troops in the war-battered county was only serving to prolong the American occupation.

Sharif Ali, who heads a Movement for Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy, is the son of Badiaa, a female cousin of Iraq's second king Ghazi. He returned to Baghdad from London in June.

[Coop]

I suspect that your parents didn't bother much with your social skills.

Hollow words coming from one who goes out of his way to mock the deaths of American soldiers, knowing full well that families and even colleagues have access to these threads. You're a petty, terrorist-enabling disgrace.

And not that etiquette has anything to do with you, but if my parents didn't teach me manners I would have used the word "piss."

[Austin Willard Wright]

Sir, I demand you apologize, that is if you are a gentleman. I never "mocked" the deaths of fine American soldiers.

BTW, you seem to have a bathroom fixation. Yet, another sign of the decline of American culture.,

[Peach]

Oh this is quite a development.

[PhiKapMom]

We should take a poll and bet "DEAD" wins!

[Redleg Duke]

"Dead" works for me.

[Redleg Duke]

He is always urinating on the graves of veterans. They are his preferred latrine.

[Redleg Duke]

At least he had parents!

[Coop]

I never "mocked" the deaths of fine American soldiers.

Baloney.

[XJarhead]

I've always suspected that we won't leave Iraq until Saddam is accounted for. Leaving the country and then having him reemerge is intolerable. Don't care how he gets gotten, as long as he's gotten.

Its if the Iraqis do it because then it isn't just a U.S. effort to get rid of him. The sooner he's gone, the sooner we get out and declare victory.

[bert]

This is all about increasing his power....

Trading some power to a cleric in return for Saddam can't be totally bad. There are many willing to contend with the cleric and that battle must be fought any way. To fight it with Sadam gone merely speeds up the process.

[LibWhacker]

Capture him alive. But do a little Shiite number on him before turning his hamburger over to us for DNA confirmation.

[sully777]

Sometimes
the enemy of your enemy
is your second front!


"I don't trust this Ferris Bueller as far as I can throw him."
"Not with your bad back, Ed."
-- Ferris Bueller's Day Off

[1Old Pro]

Somebody's got to do it and do it soon. It makes sense that Iraqis should do this.

[StriperSniper]

It makes sense that Iraqis should do this.

Absolutely, we can't hang him from a lamppost.

Not if we have to deal with this idiocy: Army files charge in combat tactic

[MindBender26]

Carville was right" A little "walkin' around money" can do wonders.