Iraq - Top al-Sadr aide captured over kidnapping, killing of five U.S. soldiers

Reuters (excerpt) ^ | March 22, 2007

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US FORCES SAY CAPTURE TOP AIDE TO IRAQI CLERIC SADR OVER KIDNAPPING, KILLING OF FIVE U.S. SOLDIERS

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US forces hold Sadr aide over killing of US soldiers

BAGHDAD, March 22 (Reuters) - U.S. forces have captured a senior aide to anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr over the kidnapping and killing of five U.S. soldiers in the Iraqi city of Kerbala in January, the U.S. military said on Thursday.

"Over the past several days, coalition forces in Basra and Hilla captured Qais Khazaali, his brother Laith Khazaali, and several other members of the Khazaali network, an organisation directly connected to the kidnapping and murder in January of five American soldiers in Kerbala," the military said in a statement. Qais Khazaali is a former spokesman for Sadr and now a senior aide to the cleric.

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US forces hold Sadr aide over killing of US soldiers

And the DimoRATS are surely saddened.

[peyton randolph]

His head should be delivered inside a pig carcass to Iranian president Imanutjob.

[Shady]

Saddam him first.

[FreedomPoster]

A quick military tribunal, then hang him.

[daybreakcoming]

Catching this pig has got to bring some satisfaction to our troops. Certainly does me.
Wonder if Sadr is still hiding in Iran.

[Joe Boucher]

Well the fat oaf hasn't the balls to be seen in public in Iraq.

[theDentist]

I fully agree.

[Enduring Freedom]

why sadr's head didn't roll in 2003 i will never know

the single biggest mistake in the war to-date

[EyeGuy]

Interrogate-Military Tribunal-Execute.

Publicly. Within 1 week of capture.

[cake_crumb]

Perhaps when Iraqi forces have more specialty training, al Sadre can be killed in an episode of "sectarian violence".

[Sam Ketcham]

Just pop Sadir

[A Texan]

I would say it is one of the larger mistakes. Also allowing the looting after the taking of Baghdad.

[cake_crumb]

Yeah, we'll just openly assassinate al Sadre, no problems whatsoever.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

I keep asking that question too...but then this was a PC war in many ways, and that makes it difficult.

thank God Bush has perserverance.

[cake_crumb]

"Also allowing the looting after the taking of Baghdad"

Yeah, imagine the idiocy of our soldiers guarding HOSPITALS rather than a museum of mostly "reproductions" that had already been emptied by museum employees. Whadda Quagmire.

[carolinalivin]

Better to guard statues than people, LOL!

[Sam Ketcham]

Yeah, much better than allowing him to disrupt the Iraqi government... or do you prefer to let him continue on... no problem at all.

[reagan_fanatic]

Yeah, we'll just openly assassinate al Sadre, no problems whatsoever

There are plenty of other ways to get Sadr without having U.S. troops pop him. He has a lot of domestic enemies, and with the right intel he could be taken care of by one of his own.