US troops will leave Iraq “in coffins”: Sadr aide

AFP ^ | January 12 2007

[jmc1969]

A senior ally of radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada Al Sadr warned on Friday that thousands of the planned 21,500 extra US troops en route for the war-torn nation would “go home in coffins”.

Launching a new strategy to rescue Iraq from civil war, Washington told the government of Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki, who owes his job to Sadr, it was on “borrowed time” and declared new “no holds barred” military operations.

A cornerstone of the new approach is increased pressure on Iraq’s neighbours Iran and Syria -- which are accused by Washington of fomenting unrest -- and tougher action to deal with militias such as Sadr’s feared Mahdi Army.

“The American people have to prevent their sons from coming to Iraq or they may return in coffins,” threatened Sheikh Abdel Razzaq al-Nadawi, a senior official in Sadr’s movement, slamming the planned US troop increase.

His threat compounded tensions over the detention of five Iranians in a US swoop on an official building earmarked as a consulate in Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, which Tehran branded a breach of international law.

Sheikh Jaber Al Khafaji, another close Sadr aide, also slammed the new US strategy during his Friday sermon in the Shiite holy city of Kufa.

“The Sadr movement rejects the new mundane policies. Their new strategy targets the faithful and believers who rejected the occupation, injustice and bondage,” he told worshippers.

[Always Right]

Why isn't this guy dead?

[zarf]

4 1/2 years into this mess Bush decides to take the gloves off.

That says it all.

[sono]

Where's Mookie been? 3000 have already done so. The decision to not eliminate this shameful waste of oxygen when he was in the US crosshairs in 2004 was regrettable.

[Oldexpat]

This guy is the enemy..take him out without prior notice to the Iraqi's..or Kurds.

[2banana]

He sounds like a democrat

[frogjerk]

“The Sadr Pelosi movement rejects the new mundane policies. Their new strategy targets the faithful and believers who rejected the occupation, injustice and bondage,”

[RexBeach]

Time for Mookie to receive some lead poisoning...like a double tap to his forehead.

[sono]

That's a big ten-four.

[eastforker]

They said body bags earlier, what is it muzzies, coffins or body bags. How bout if we send you muzzies back in sandwich bags.

[roses of sharon]

Sadr's aides on MSNBC? CNN? Dems? ABCCBSNBC? Or the NYT? WP? PBS?

Maybe Hagel or Boxer?

So many snivelers in the US its hard to figure out just who these aides really are.

[PzLdr]

Sadr ought to leave Iraq in a hog carcass - make that a Hogzilla carcass, considering Sadr's size.

[IrishMike]

MORE SURGE, Moqtada Al Sadr needs killing.

My New Tag Line

[Bahbah]

His threat compounded tensions over the detention of five Iranians in a US swoop on an official building earmarked as a consulate in Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, which Tehran branded a breach of international law.

How exactly would his "threat" (empty bloviating, imho) compound alleged "tensions" over the Iranian spies and troublemakers. And they were NOT in a consulate (not that I care much). Dumb sentence.

[himno hero]

when did Sadr declare HE was Iraq and their singular spokesman?

[Dog Gone]

Tehran is the last place that should be complaining about assaults on diplomatic buildings.

[Artemis Webb]

"4 1/2 years into this mess Bush decides to take the gloves off.
That says it all."

What does it say Zarf?

[wodinoneeye]

Oh so he admits to causing deaths and intending more??

That ought to earn him his own 500lb laser guided bomb....

[Last Laugh]

How bout if we send you muzzies back in sandwich bags.

Or pig intestines.

[Wings-n-Wind]

A senior ally of radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada Al Sadr warned on Friday that thousands of the planned 21,500 extra US troops en route for the war-torn nation would “go home in coffins”.

And we will drop a MOAB on yo' smelly, turbanized, empty-wagon-rattle punkin' head...

Blow your beard right off your face...

OR....

Just give one Marine a mission order and a bullet