US army arrest deputy to firebrand Shiite

AFP ^ | 12/03/03

[TexKat]

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A deputy of a firebrand Shiite leader has been arrested Iraq in connection with the killing of two US soldiers, US military deputy director for operations Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt said.

"Coalition forces in Baghdad conducted a joint raid with the Iraqi Civil Defence Corps and detained Amar al-Yasseri, operations director of Moqtada Sadr in Sadr City, also believed to have been behind the ambush of coalition troops on October 9," the general told a Baghdad press conference Wednesday.

Yasseri was captured in the sprawling Shiite quarter without incident, Kimmitt added.

The two soldiers died on October 9.

[TexKat]

A deputy of firebrand Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr has been arrested Iraq in connection with the killing of two US soldiers, US military deputy director for operations Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt said.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)

[Coop]

One more scumbag off the Iraqi streets.

[Steve_Seattle]

For a religion supposedly with no clergy, Islam seems to have produced a whole class of flea-bitten clerics whose only purpose in life seems to be to spew hate and promote violence.

[varon]

For a religion supposedly with no clergy, Islam seems to have produced a whole class of flea-bitten clerics.............

Islam is to religion as Rap is to music ;-)

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Very good news.
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BAGHDAD (AFP) - A deputy of a firebrand Shiite leader has been arrested Iraq in connection with the killing of two US soldiers, US military deputy director for operations Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt said.

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[blackie]

We're smoking out the bad guys ~ Bump!

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[McGavin999]

If Islam is going to be a major religion, it's going to need to go through a reformation. There are too many "clerics" who are hijacking the religion and leading the people astray. There needs to be some rules established and a way for the mainline clerics to expose these imposters. Either that or they will fail their people.

[TexKat]

OPERATION LOCKDOWN now/was in progress

Soldiers of the U.S Army's 4th Infantry Division (Task Force Ironhorse ) search a garden with Iraqi police during operation 'Lockdown' in the village of Aswan outside the town of Baquba in central Iraq, December 3, 2003. U.S. troops searched more then 500 houses in the village looking for weapons and members of a suspected cell who attacked U.S.-led coalition forces. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov

A detained Iraqi man is marked by a red ribbon during operation 'Lockdown' in the village Aswan outside the town of Baquba in central Iraq, December 3, 2003. Soldiers of 4th Infantry Division (Task Force Ironhorse) searched more then 500 houses in the village looking for weapons and members of a suspected cell who attacked coalition forces. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov

A soldier of the U.S Army's 4th Infantry Division (Task Force Ironhorse) searches a bedroom during operation 'Lockdown' in the village of Aswan outside the town of Baquba in central Iraq, December 3, 2003. U.S. troops searched more than 500 houses in a village looking for weapons and members of a suspected cell who attacked coalition forces. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov REUTERS

US soldiers prevent Iraqi officers (blue shirts, front) and villagers al-Riyadh near Hawijah. US troops detained the private secretary of Saddam Hussein's fugitive number two, Izzat Ibrahim, during a huge search.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)

[TexKat]

Either that or they will fail their people

I think they already have failed their people.

[HiJinx]

Yeah, why is it that that name keeps popping up?
Could it be that he is in some way connected with so much that's bad in Iraq right about now?

[Old Sarge]

Yasseri was captured in the sprawling Shiite quarter without incident, Kimmitt added.
The two soldiers died on October 9.

(evil grin) Gotcha...

[windchime]

Good news! Will be glad when they eliminate Sadr.