BBC: Iraq cleric Sadr explains absence

BBC ^ | Friday, 7 March 2008, 19:19 GMT | BBC Staff

[NormsRevenge]

He’s studying, eh?

Here’s hoping he’s ‘studying’ like Fidel is ‘recuperating’. ;-)

[blam]

I was hoping the poison killed him.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well....

Related thread:

Muqtada Al-Sadr Comatose In Iranian Hospital

Now ...What do we believe....???

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Guess we will see just what is true....

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Last I heard, Mookie was poisoned and lying in a coma somewhere in Teheran, with Russian docs trying to save his sorry hide.

Muqtada Al-Sadr Comatose In Iranian Hospital

[philled]

I skimmed the article and didn’t notice if it was a audio/video statement from him or a written statement from his lackeys. However, I was hoping for something more along the lines of “Sorry I haven’t been around for the past six months- I’ve been dead.”

[Lurker]

He's dead, blam.

L

[Resolute Conservative]

Ah Mookie we but barely knew ye. Someone else who needs to follow Hugo to hades.

A side note, does the press ever get tired of calling every pig infested city in the ME a “holy city”. It is worse than the obligatory Brittany sightings.

[Argus]

He was in rehab.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

He may be back....

[Anti-Bubba182]

It seemes to me he could make periodic appearances in Iraq and
not unduly interrupt his study. In other words, I think there is more going on such as he is ill or dead.

[Allegra]

He said he missed his followers "too much" but that every "commander needed to be away for a while to self-worship".

[Republic of Texas]

How many infidels do you have to slaughter to gain the title of Ayatollah?

[JoanVarga]

Comatose? Then the Left will have no problem with declaring him “brain dead” and pulling the plug, right?

[Allegra]

Correspondents say the honorific title of ayatollah would enhance his religious credentials, as well as providing him with enhanced authority over spiritual matters in his country and the ability to issue fatwas (legal rulings).

That is about the last thing Iraq needs.

And the people won't stand for it.

This guy really needs to become metaphysically challenged.

[nuconvert]

“My late father personally recommended me to pay more attention to learning and studying.”

His father thought he was a good-for-nothing. Lol.

[sinanju]

I read in “The Persian Puzzle” that Ayatollahships are not just handed out like teaching certificates. The candidate has to have a record of substantial accomplishment and to publish and defend a demanding dissertation.

Of course Iranian Khomeni-ism is so corrupted that I’m quite sure Supreme Poobah Ayatollah Khameni could make it so.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

LOL!!!

He was probably getting special training from the ....Special Group of the Iranians....

[Allegra]

"I swear that I live with you and among you. I am a part of you. I will not change his unless death separates us," he said.