Posted on 02/24/2011 8:15:03 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Iraqi radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday returned home in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, an official from Sadr's office said...
Sadr has been in the neighboring Iran for more than three years for Shiite religious studies in the holy Iranian city of Qom.
Last month, Sadr returned to Iraq for two weeks but he suddenly left to Iran to come back on Wednesday to the country again.
Earlier in the day, Sadr's political office released a statement by Moqtada al-Sadr calling for holding a survey among Iraqis within a week in all Iraq's 18 provinces about their opinion over public services...
Iraqi groups on the social networking website Facebook are calling for a coordinated protest on February 25, asking Iraqis to hold what they named "Revolution of Iraqi Rage" In Baghdad's al- Tahrir (Liberation) Square, which located just across the Tigris River near the Green Zone that houses the Iraqi government's offices and the U.S. embassy.
Sadr, in his 30s, gained popularity among younger Shiite Iraqis by his anti-American rhetoric since the toppling of former president Saddam Hussein's government by the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. His Mahdi Army militia has been fighting against U.S. troops and was one of the major forces in the sectarian strife in Iraq that claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.
Meanwhile, the cleric's recent returns in Iraq seem to be part of relief between his group and Maliki's Dawa Party despite Maliki led a crackdown against Sadr's Mahdi Army in 2008.
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G’night all.
Mookie! You been hidin’ out with some of those Wisconsin state Senators?
Maybe he was gettin’ out while the gettin’ was good.
Shoot him on the spot!
This guy should have been tattooed years ago.
Holy City of ....
HOLY CITY THIS. HOLY CITY THAT.
By Islamacist standards it is the ‘Holy City of Hoboken ...”.
For religious studies.... riiiight. He's back to agitate before the next national day of rage.
this is not Good!
Yes, and this is designed to get people stirred up.
Sadr is doing the work of Iran. He doesn't want to see a democracy in Iraq - he wants to have a strict Islamic rule where he is the head ayatollah.
The little creep was here for a couple of weeks last month and the mortars and rockets started landing on the bases again.
How I detest this...thing, this embodiment of evil.
I hope he’s toast sometime before summer, in fact, before my birthday. It’ll be the best present ever.
Iran’s just about ready to start the revolt by proxy, then launch an invasion to “restore order and justice”. All they’re waiting on is Little Miss Barri Soetero to pull out US forces — for example, redeploying them to Libya.
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