Al Sadr Disowned by His Family, Awaits His Fate

Found this article over at the Mudville Gazette. Apparently Alsadar, that is how they spell it, is fed up with Muqtada and have publicly disowned him. Not only have they disowned him they are considering what actions to take.

Iraq’s Josef Alsadar said that Muqtada Alsadar has tainted our family reputation; we will deal with him internally.

By going public, it comes with some risks, as the editor at the newspaper which carried the letter points out.

Alrafidain has published this news after it consulted with Josef Alsadar, and expressed its concern that publishing his letter may threaten his life or safety. The news agency reminded him of the assassination of Said Riadh Alnoori some days earlier. He was assassinated after he wrote Muqtada a letter asking him to dissolve the Mehdi Army. Alseyed Josef insisted we publish his letter against all threats.

Maybe the end is finally coming for this scourge on the coalition and the Iraqi government's backside.

Strong Black Woman Calls Mookie a Coward

Or why for one day if Condoleezza Rice were running for President she would have my vote.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on Sunday, hours after the radical leader threatened to declare war unless U.S. and Iraqi forces end a military crackdown on his followers.

And she did it in his backyard. Ms. Rice is in Baghdad for some meetings with the Iraqi government and I want to know where this kind of talk has been all these years? The last time somebody in this administration talked with any kind of bravado was when President Bush proclaimed to the world to "Bring it on."

"I know he's sitting in Iran," Rice said dismissively, when asked about al-Sadr's latest threat to lift a self-imposed cease-fire with government and U.S. forces. "I guess it's all-out war for anybody but him," Rice said. "I guess that's the message; his followers can go too their deaths and he's in Iran.

Mookie, the ball is in your court. Will he sit in Iran and order his followers to certain death? A death that can be more appropriately called sacrifice or suicide then it can martyrdom. How long will Iran allow him stay? If Iran kicks him out where will he go? Probably to Syria to huddle with other Middle Eastern cowards.

Liberals will no doubt characterize the statements as inciting Al Sadr to violence, but let's face it, he will resort to violence, sacrificing his brainwashed followers any time he feels it will put him on the front page and in the news. It seems to the new criteria for being a leader in the Muslim world is determined by how many of your fellow Muslims you can get killed upon the guns of the those trying to bring peace or wishing to live in peace. When the Muslims wake up and discover that their so-called leaders only bring them death and nothing else? Of course, having your followers kill themselves does reduce the number you actually have to provide for. So if getting your people to die in some sort of messianic trance is the measure of an Islamic leader, then I guess they all have shrines to Japanese soldiers of World War II and Emperor Hirohito.

Good job, Condi; and if he comes out and comes home to play I hope somewhere he is given a .30 caliber greeting card.

Al-Sadr Calls for Attacks on U.S. Forces

Why is this piece of garbage still breathing?

The renegade cleric Muqtada al-Sadr urged the Iraqi army and police to stop cooperating with the United States and told his guerrilla fighters to concentrate on pushing American forces out of the country, according to a statement issued Sunday.

The statement, stamped with al-Sadr's official seal, was distributed in the Shiite holy city of Najaf on Sunday a day before a large demonstration there, called for by al-Sadr, to mark the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad.

"You, the Iraqi army and police forces, don't walk alongside the occupiers, because they are your archenemy," the statement said. Its authenticity could not be verified.

As soon as he ever shows his face inside Iraq, he needs to be whacked.

Some good news was buried in this report:

U.S. forces also captured a senior al-Qaida leader and two others in a raid Sunday morning in Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

The al-Qaida figure was identified as "the gatekeeper to the al-Qaida emir of Baghdad" and was linked to several car bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital, the military said in a statement, without naming the captive.

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