Posted on 08/06/2006 9:49:01 AM PDT by bnelson44
New Center Emerging, Hakim to Meet Sunni Leader as Reconciliation Council Continues Its Work
Iraqi politics continues its realignment as the Sunni Muslim Scholars Association (MSA) turns from viewing the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Sadriya movement as their natural allies among Iraqi Shia to renewed dialogue with the more moderate SCIRI, which is head of the ruling United Iraqi Alliance. One of the more interesting developments of 2005 was a kind of de facto alliance between the intensely anti-American MSA and the Sadriya. Yet over the past year, the MSA has gradually distanced itself further and further from foreign jihadists such as al-Qaeda and have at the same time come to blame Sadr’s Mahdi Army for both vigilante violence against Sunni militants and atrocities against Sunni civilians.
As reported in the international Arab newspaper Al-Hayat, MSA member ‘Asam al-Rawi blamed the failure of talks between the MSA and Shia leaders on the fact that militias had come to control some areas of Baghdad, an implicit reference to Sadr’s Mahdi Army, and al-Qaeda others. He then explicitly stated that this was the cause of the “spoiling of the close ties which had existed between the association and the Sadr faction.” Rawi was further quoted as saying that militia factions sought to destroy the reconciliation initiative of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, “calling on the necessity of the Sadr faction to recognize the initiative.” Al-Hayat went on to quote him saying that Maliki’s initiative had not yet succeeded, explicitly blaming the Shia militia.
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Mookie needs to go.
He needs to be sent to virgin heaven SASPO!!! Com'n GW Bush, get some backbone!!!
Allegra has even posted that the Iraqi "Civil War" is WAY overblown in the reporting by the MSM.
I'm not sure who posted this on Burbank Karl's daily Middle East thread, but the violence was described as more of a "gang turf war" more than a "civil war."
Your post, bnelson44, IMHO, seems to also describe it as such.
BTTT !!
You may be thinking of this article:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1678049/posts
Quite.
Of course getting rid of him is a little tricky. We really need to get Al Sistani to denounce Iranian interference, then go after al Sadr. (He won't give us his blessing--he always subtly words his objectively pro-American statements in such a way as to avoid 'siding with infidels against Muslims'--but we really need something public from him so as not to alienate the Iraqi Shia.)
It would clean up a lot of things: we'd get even more support from the non-insurrectionist Sunni if we got rid of their local nemesis (already the Sunni Arabs are becoming the most gungho for a long American presence in Iraq), presumably this would make cleaning up the remaining Sunni terrorists easier, and it would shift the focus of the war from the Sunni Salafist al Qaeda to the more important enemy, the Iranian-backed Shi'ite Twelver Hastners.
Why is Sadr still alive????
Mookie and Nasty and every other muzzie cleric would look good with a hole in their forehead. Target the clerics and it wont take long for the run of the mill worker bees to figger out that it aint smart to go struttin around wearin a black sheet on your head. However, if you snipe them, then they become martyrs. Better to kidnap them and send them to an end that cannot be celebrated.
I thin al Sadr was at his very best last year when he insisted on going around wrapped in his own burial shroud, as a sign he had already martyred himself. Too bad nobody has made that wish come true for him.......yet.
A remarkable stupid thing to say about a President who is responsible for more dead terrorists then all the Knee jerk screamers ever will be.
We've got to stop focusing on individuals. al-Sadr is like Fritos: eat him up, they'll just make more.
Has the termination with extreme prejudice of al-Zaqawi caused the Sunni sectarian terrorists in Iraq to lose one beat? It would be the same with the Shiite sectarian terrorists of al-Sadr.
Mookie needs to go.
More likely 7.62mm, from 300-800 yards...
One of our principal army generals (name escapes me just now) was asked recently in a senate hearing about the long-standing arrest warrant with Mookie's name on it. The general said this was a matter for Iraqi government officials to deal with. Evidently they don't have the cojones to do it.
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