Iraq Cleric Vows Fight to Death Vs. U.S.

AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/9/04 | Abdul Hussein el-Obeidi - AP

[XJarhead]

'I will continue fighting,' al-Sadr told reporters. 'I will remain in Najaf city until the last drop of my blood has been spilled.'.

What a joke. This REMF hasn't even spilled the first drop of his own blood. He just gets other people to do it for him.

[ken5050]

In todya's NYTimes, there's a front page pic, atributed to Reuters of a terrorist aiming an RPG at a US Apache. the camerman BEHIND the terrorist..so you can see the tube aiming at the chopper..this suggests the obvious, that the Reuters guys are with the terrorists..

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Exactly - he negotiated a deal IIRC about a month or two ago with us - if he was so anxious to fight to the death he wouldn't have made any deals, then or ever.

[ErnBatavia]

The British military said it had reports that 150 militants were walking through Basra demanding all shops be closed.

So the Brits just stood back and watched??

[Steve_Seattle]

Why can't we catch this little sack of s**t? He needs killing, real bad.

[Recovering Hermit]

Please take out this asshole.

[Blue Scourge]

"I will remain in Najaf city until the last drop of mymy brained washed fools blood has been spilled."

thats more like it.

[mcg1969]

By all means, let's oblige him.

[Steve_Seattle]

If the press can photograph these punks walking down the street, why can't our soldiers kill them?

[Recovering Hermit]

...so you can see the tube aiming at the chopper..this suggests the obvious, that the Reuters guys are with the terrorists...

Yep. Anything for a good photo-op. Pricks.

[txhurl]

The fool's making me nervous. Said he'd like to go out via an American atomic bomb.

If there IS a nuke in Iraq (in radical hands) to be used - and does get detonated - what a mess.

[NormsRevenge]

That is my question as well..

Why are these "insurgents" allowed to be out in public heavily armed?

AND

Where do they keep gtting these weapons?

[ChadGore]

Re: "I will continue fighting," al-Sadr told reporters. "I will remain in Najaf city until the last drop of my blood has been spilled."

When will this pinhead spill his *first drop* of blood ?

Never. He'll never spill his last, because he's not willing to risk his first.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Asked what current U.S. policy toward al-Sadr is, the senior officer in Baghdad said al-Sadr "is not an objective; we are not actively pursuing him."

And why not? This is idiocy. How can you tolerate the leader of an anti-government militia? Goddammit!

[Arpege92]

What this guy really needs is a dentist! These Muslim wacko's are some of the most disgusting looking people.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

From their brother Arabs and from Iran.

[js1138]

Follow the reporters...

[TexKat]

A British Army Land Rover burns near radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's offices in the southern Iraq city of Basra, August 9, 2004. British forces fought gun battles with militiamen on the streets of Basra and a military spokeswoman said the situation in Iraq's second largest city was 'extremely tense.' Photo by Atef Hassan/Reuters

U.S. troops survey the scene of a car bomb explosion in Khalidiyah, west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad August 9, 2004. At least four Iraqis were killed when a civilian bus was caught in the blast, witnesses said. Photo by Reuters

A US Bradley fighting vehicle patrols through Baghdad's predominantly Shiite Muslim Sadr City neighborhood as a militiaman of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr's Mehdi Army, armed with a grenade launcher, looks on. Sadr vowed to fight on until his 'last drop of blood' as intense clashes engulfed Najaf for a fifth straight day, while six people were killed in a suicide bombing.(AFP/Karim Sahib)

An armed follower of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and al-Mahdi army takes to the streets on crutches in the southern Iraqi city of Basra Monday Aug. 9, 2004. The British military said it had reports that 150 militants were walking through Basra demanding all shops be closed. The Mahdi Army threatened Monday to take over local government buildings in Basra if U.S. troops did not leave Najaf, and also said they would target oil pipelines and ports in southern Iraq. (AP Photo/Nabil Juranee)

Followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and al-Mahdi army take to the streets in the southern Iraqi city of Basra Monday Aug. 9, 2004. The British military said it had reports that 150 militants were walking through Basra demanding all shops be closed. The Mahdi Army threatened Monday to take over local government buildings in Basra if U.S. troops did not leave Najaf, and also said they would target oil pipelines and ports in southern Iraq. (AP Photo/Nabil Juranee)

An Iraqi Shi'ite militiaman allied with radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, armed with a looted heavy machine gun, takes a position on a street in the southern city of Basra, August 9, 2004. Clashes erupted anew in Najaf and the Baghdad slum district of Sadr City, and in other Baghdad areas, while across southern Iraq tensions remained high in several Shi'ite-dominant cities, including Nassiriya, Amara, Basra and Diwaniya. REUTERS/Atef Hassan

U.S. Marines battle militiamen allied with radical Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al Sadr in Najaf's Wadi Al Salam cemetery August 5, 2004. U.S. forces have killed at least 360 militants in the past four days of fighting between U.S. troops and Shi'ite militiamen in the holy city of Najaf, a senior U.S. military official said on August 9. (USMC/Reuters)

Militiamen allied to radical Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al Sadr fire a mortar in the city of Najaf, August 9, 2004. Four days of intense fighting in the heart of Najaf, across southern Iraq (news - web sites) and in several districts of Baghdad have killed or wounded hundreds of Shi'ite militants, the U.S. military says, and piled pressure on Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's 40-day-old government. REUTERS/Akram Saleh

[McGavin999]

It is time to level the city of Najaf! If they want to kill us, then ... goodbye!!

Guess you haven't been following the story.

[Steve_Seattle]

I'm no military guy, but I question whether tanks and helicopters are the best way to deal with these punks. I think we need commandos on the ground, risky as it is. We see all these pics of these guys running around at will, while our tanks are lumbering along. We need a more mobile force to deal with these creeps.