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Iraq - Exclusive: Secret US plot to kill Al-Sadr
The Independent (UK) (No Excerpt)
| May 22, 2007
| Patrick Cockburn
Posted on 05/22/2007 12:57:04 AM PDT by HAL9000
No excerpt allowed, and I will not provide an active link, but here is the URL in plaintext -
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2565123.ece
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alsadr; iraq; najaf; rubaie; sadr
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posted on
05/22/2007 12:57:07 AM PDT
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
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posted on
05/22/2007 12:59:58 AM PDT
by
dennisw
("Libertarianism is applied autism" - Steve Sailer)
To: dennisw
Thanks for a clever solution.
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posted on
05/22/2007 1:02:43 AM PDT
by
HAL9000
(Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
To: All
If it’s published in a public format, it’s not a “secret.”
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posted on
05/22/2007 1:03:14 AM PDT
by
Cindy
To: dennisw
forget the fancy spook plots , send the snipers
To: LeoWindhorse
To heck with bullets, send in the bombers.
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posted on
05/22/2007 1:05:12 AM PDT
by
South40
(Amnesty for ILLEGALS Is A Slap In The Face To The USBP!!)
To: HAL9000
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posted on
05/22/2007 1:07:19 AM PDT
by
dennisw
("Libertarianism is applied autism" - Steve Sailer)
To: South40
To heck with bullets, send in the bombers. To Iran where the nasty little creep is cowering.
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posted on
05/22/2007 1:30:30 AM PDT
by
Allegra
(Socks.)
To: HAL9000
I didn’t think there anything secret about it.
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posted on
05/22/2007 2:48:26 AM PDT
by
WorkerbeeCitizen
(Anti Islam and a Global Warming denier - piss on Islam)
To: HAL9000
Secret? I can’t think of a single person who doesn’t want a “final” solution for this satanist.
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posted on
05/22/2007 2:58:19 AM PDT
by
freeangel
( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
To: HAL9000
“The attempted assassination or abduction took place two-and-a-half years ago in August 2004 when Mr Sadr and his Mehdi Army militiamen were besieged by US Marines in Najaf, south of Baghdad.”
Boy, this clown is Johnny on the spot with current info.
The way this began sounded as if this were a NEW SECRET plot. This is OLD news - as well as common knowledge in this neck of the woods.
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posted on
05/22/2007 3:03:16 AM PDT
by
roaddog727
(BullS##t does not get bridges built)
To: HAL9000
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posted on
05/22/2007 8:37:30 AM PDT
by
Shots
(Loose lips sink ships)
To: HAL9000
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posted on
05/22/2007 8:38:59 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Treaty)
To: HAL9000
"Mr Sadr", my @&$3!!!!
We should kept at it until the job was done!
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posted on
05/22/2007 9:37:17 AM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: TXnMA
should have...
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posted on
05/22/2007 9:39:49 AM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: HAL9000
Yeah, because before this ‘secret’ plot, Sadr loved the U.S. and liked to watch reruns of Baywatch.
To: HAL9000
Secret Plot to Kill The Leader of the Democrat Party - Sadr
Although Mr Sadr escaped with his life at the last moment, the incident helps explain why he disappeared from view in Iraq when President George Bush stepped up confrontation with him and his Mehdi Army militia in January.
Dr Rubai'e said: "I know him very well and I think his suspicion and distrust of the coalition and any foreigner is really deep-rooted," and dates from what happened in Najaf. He notes that after it had happened Mr Sadr occupied the shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf as a place of refuge. Dr Rubai'e had gone to Najaf in August 2004 to try to mediate an end to the fighting. He met Mr Sadr who agreed to a set of conditions to end the crisis. "He actually signed the agreement with his own handwriting," said Dr Rubai'e. "He wanted the inner Najaf, the old city, around the shrine to be treated like the Vatican."
Having returned to Baghdad to show the draft document to Iyad Allawi, who was prime minister at the time, Dr Rubai'e went back to Najaf to make a final agreement with Mr Sadr.
It was agreed that the last meeting would take place in the house in Najaf of Muqtada's father Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr who had been murdered by Saddam's gunmen with two of his sons five years before. Dr Rubai'e and other mediators started for the house. As they did so they saw the US Marines open up an intense bombardment of the house and US Special Forces also heading for it. But the attack was a few minutes premature. Mr Sadr was not yet in the house and managed to escape.
2004???? what has happened to attempts in 2005, 2006, 2007 etc...
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posted on
05/26/2007 12:40:39 AM PDT
by
Fred
(Democrat Party - "The Nadir of Nihilism")
To: HAL9000
We had our chance a couple years ago, and the decision I’m sure was made to let him live “for stability reasons”. What a tactical blunder. We don’t want to whip these people up! We can reason with him! Yeah, that will work while he was on Iran’s payroll the entire time.
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