The Mahdi Army, a Shiite militia led by Iraqi radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, has re-emerged as a key force in Iraqi politics. Sunnis believe his militia is responsible for the kidnapping and killing of thousands of Sunnis over the past few months. Now a plan to shift more U.S. troops to Baghdad to deal with the worsening violence there is seen as putting the American military on a crash course with al-Sadr, shown here in an Aug. 9, 2004, file photo. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)
Jason, how about this 'cleric'? Would it be anti cleric to call him to task? He'll scare the hell and more out of you if one of his followes were tasked to get you.
Isn't he a peach. A bullit between his peepers would improve that photograph.
Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr delivers the sermon during traditional Friday prayers attended by about 5,000 worshippers at the Kufa mosque near the holy city of Najaf in Iraq in this Friday, June 30, 2006 file photo where al-Sadr rejected the recently announced national reconciliation plan of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Today, in 2006 al-Sadr and the U.S. military are locked in a high-risk struggle as the Americans seek to restore order to Baghdad and shore up the shaky government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, himself a Shiite. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)