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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 4/10/2007 1:21:42 PM
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Lucifer
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Dear Azinourm, Will you stop this cheap use of language against people, it has been a long time since you have been a mouth piece for your masters, let me guess how many Benjamin’s did you charge to write such a silly article on this web site. It is really sad to see to level on which Iraq 4 U stands at this moment. With the amount of illiteracy that is present between the ((communities)) of Iraq no wonder that voices like your voice thrive and continue thrive between them
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 4/10/2007 2:10:18 PM
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Do I know you? Ah yes....your the "he speaks good english therefore he must be from Langley" guy. Its be a while.
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 4/13/2007 6:09:21 AM
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New article on the man I love to hate from the economist.
Most turbulent and puzzling of priests
Apr 12th 2007 BAGHDAD - From The Economist print edition
Muqtada al-Sadr drops out of sight but stirs anti-American fervour
THEY seek him here; they seek him there. It has been months since Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraq's most capricious and now perhaps its most powerful Shia clergyman, has been seen in public. At dinner tables in Baghdad's heavily-protected Green Zone, where many of Iraq's governing elite hunker down alongside their American mentors, guessing his whereabouts has become a bit of a game.
A favoured explanation is that Mr Sadr slipped across the border to Iran, along with senior commanders of his Mahdi Army militia, at the beginning of February, to avoid being targeted in the Baghdad security drive—President George Bush's vaunted “surge”—that was just starting. Another has it that he and his gunmen are simply lying low in the capital, while the Americans try to cleanse its more volatile districts of Sunni insurgents.
Some go as far as to suggest that Mr Sadr is exploiting the cult-like devotion he inspires among his legion of mainly young and poor Shia followers to evoke the image of the Shias' “hidden imam” whose reappearance on earth is supposed to herald an era of peace and justice. Indeed, it is not hard to find people in Mr Sadr's flock who say he is actually the Imam al-Mahdi himself, the Shias' 12th and last leader, who was “occultated” into thin air in 939AD and is due one day to reappear.
In any event, Mr Sadr's many rivals and enemies had been rubbing their hands at reports that in his current absence his movement was breaking up. Though Mr Sadr seems to have reined in most of his trigger-happy gunmen, American and Iraqi forces are still hunting them down as part of the surge and have rounded up a clutch of his top men. This week in the southern city of Diwaniyah, Sadrist militiamen fought a fierce but futile rearguard battle, as American and Iraqi tanks rolled into the town to reassert their authority.
Meanwhile, Mr Sadr's parliamentary block, which is the biggest in the governing Shia alliance, with six ministries (including transport and health), is embroiled in its own rows. The prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, who hails from the rival Dawa party but owes his position to the Sadrists' backing when his government was formed, has threatened a reshuffle that might lessen their stature. And some Shias blame the Sadrists for causing the Fadhila party, which competes with Mr Sadr's lot for control of Basra, Iraq's biggest southern city, to defect from the ruling alliance.
Wherever he is, Mr Sadr has been far from idle. This week he orchestrated a resounding comeback, even if he was still physically absent. He broke his silence with a spate of anti-American proclamations urging his fighters to intensify their struggle to oust American forces and telling Iraq's army and police to work together to defeat “the arch-enemy”. Hundreds of thousands of his adherents (more than a million, say his devotees) then staged a peaceful protest rally, marching between the Shias' holy cities of Kufa and Najaf. Marking the fourth anniversary of Saddam Hussein's fall, they demanded the immediate withdrawal of American troops.
We are all Iraqis now
Their emphasis was more on getting the Americans out than on asserting Shia superiority over their Sunni compatriots. The militiamen were told to change their trademark black warriors' outfit for civilian garb, to leave their guns at home, and to avoid inflaming sectarian passions. Instead of waving pictures of Mr Sadr or his revered late father, the marchers draped themselves in the Iraqi flag. “Yes to Iraq, yes to sovereignty, no to occupation,” they shouted, pumping fists and waving the national flag. Some of the armed policemen lining the route joined in.
Sunni as well as turbaned Shia clerics walked at the head of the huge parade, to make it look national rather than sectarian. Once it reached Najaf, the marchers flocked to the shrine of Imam Ali, where they were treated to another missive from Mr Sadr, again projecting himself as a voice for all Iraqis. “Every day tens are martyred and crippled. Every day we see and hear American interference in every aspect of our lives, which means we are neither sovereign, nor independent nor free,” declared the clergyman in a letter read out by an aide. “This is what Iraq has harvested from the American invasion.”
While the crowd was stirred by the anti-American outpouring, Mr Sadr's message may have been directed more at Mr Maliki, to remind him that the Sadrist base is intact and that no other group, bar the Kurds, can mobilise such wide support. Several Sadrist government ministers then threatened to resign in protest against Mr Maliki's apparent failure to spell out a clear timetable for America's withdrawal. If the entire Sadrist block were to turn against the government, it might even fall.
So far, Mr Maliki has refused to kow-tow. “We see no need for a withdrawal timetable,” he said during a visit this week to Japan. “We are working as fast as we can.” “Achievements on the ground” would determine how long American troops remained.
This, the Sadrists furiously responded, was not good enough. Mr Maliki, they said, was defying the Iraqi people's will. They also vented their anger over the Baghdad surge, calling it “unfair”, since it targeted the Shia militias, who had been co-operating, while letting Sunni insurgents go on bombing Shia civilians.
Mr Sadr's next move is as big a conundrum as his whereabouts. Will he truly let his adherents risk bringing down the Shia-led government? Will he declare all-out war on the Americans? And will he let his Shia militias resume their murderous sectarian onslaught against so-called Sunni extremists? Without hearing it from the mouth of the man himself, it is hard to say.
Meanwhile, one voice, previously deemed the most influential in the land, has remained quiet: that of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, hitherto regarded as by far the most respected of Iraq's Shia clergymen. In the past few months, he has been notably absent from public life (some suspect he is ill), bar an apparent but unclear intervention to stop the government from allowing more people from Saddam's Baath party back into public office. Until sectarian strife broke out with unprecedented ferocity a year ago, Mr Sistani had been credited with restraining the Shias from perpetrating revenge attacks after mass bombings by Sunni insurgents. He has sincerely urged national reconciliation. If Mr Sadr has truly eclipsed the older man, Iraq may get even bloodier.
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 4/13/2007 10:50:52 AM
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Al-Sadr attempts to re-position himself as a leader of all Iraqis
By Leila Fadel and Shashank Bengali - McClatchy Newspapers Posted Apr 08, 2007
BAGHDAD, Iraq - With his powerful anti-American movement losing its footing amid U.S.-led round-ups and military operations, the Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is trying to recast himself in his one-time image as a national resistance figure for all Iraqis - Shiite and Sunni alike.
In central Baghdad, a large billboard featuring al-Sadr's defiant visage proclaims: "I'm not Shiite/I'm not Sunni/But I am Iraqi." On Monday, the fourth anniversary of the U.S. conquest of Baghdad, al-Sadr ordered his followers to unite in the holy city of Najaf in a "mammoth demonstration" against the U.S. military presence and to "raise the Iraqi flag above all others."
Iraqi legislators and regional experts see an element of desperation in his attempt to re-position his movement and maintain the power he's garnered in the last year.
In Sunni communities al-Sadr's name has become synonymous with kidnappings and revenge killings. Among Shiites, his reputation has slightly suffered as cracks appear in his vast Mahdi Army militia and in the top leadership of his movement. Not so long ago, al-Sadr's fiery anti-American rhetoric and appeal for unity garnered him support across the sectarian divide. In 2004 Mahdi Army fighters and Sunni insurgents banded together to fight U.S. troops in Fallujah. Al-Sadr has called for joint prayers between Sunnis and Shiites in the past, and the late leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Sunni, pointedly excluded him and his followers from his list of assassination targets in a 2005 statement.
Al-Sadr disappeared from view following the announcement of the U.S.-Iraqi joint security plan for Baghdad. Al-Sadr aides insist the cleric is still inside Iraq, but the U.S. military asserts he has fled to neighboring Iran. Meanwhile, the Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who owes his position to al-Sadr backing, seemed to give its blessing to the U.S.-led crackdown on the al-Sadr militia and arrest of top leaders in his Mahdi Army. Today, analysts and politicians doubt that a nationalist stance will restore his cross-sectarian appeal. Many think al-Sadr's intention is to repair fractures in his own movement. Joost Hiltermann, Middle East director for the International Crisis Group think tank, said that al-Sadr's "lie-low" strategy has backfired among his more militant followers.
"Shiites who were targets (of sectarian violence) want to respond, and Muqtada is coming under more pressure to call for some kind of retaliation," Hiltermann said. The mass demonstrations are "one way of allowing people to let off steam." Legislators say Monday's demonstration is an effort by al-Sadr to appear strong against the crackdown.
"Muqtada is hiding and it has given a very bad picture to his followers and all Iraqis," said Mithal al-Alusi, a secular Sunni legislator. "His people don't believe in him. ... He's using April 9 as a day to clean his name, to come back within his movement." Still, Iraq braced for a huge turnout that could spill over into the capital, where the government ordered an all-day curfew.
In Mahdi Army-controlled neighborhoods in Baghdad, sales of Iraqi flags soared as homes, stores and concrete blast walls were decked in the national colors of red, white and black. On the road south to Najaf, droves of Shiites waved the flags from truck beds. In a related development, a statement purportedly from al-Sadr was passed to Najaf residents calling for Iraqi security forces to stop working with coalition forces and band together with all Iraqis against them. The statement came at the end of a three-day battle between U.S. and Iraqi forces and Mahdi Army fighters in Diwaniyah, south of Baghdad.
Vali Nasr, a Middle East expert at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., said that al-Sadr's response to the U.S. troop assault against his once government protected militia has put his position of power in jeopardy, and that his statements were meant to distract his followers, including militiamen who are eager to retaliate.
"This tough rhetoric essentially camouflages the decision not to fight," he said. Al-Sadr's relative inexperience and that of his inner circle reportedly frustrate leaders in his movement. Followers of his late father - Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, a top Shiite cleric who was revered by millions of mostly poor Shiites - worry that the younger al-Sadr is the pawn of his handlers.
Sheikh Moayed al-Khazraji, a former high al-Sadr aide, voiced frustration that al-Sadr isn't harder on al-Maliki's government for cooperating with U.S. forces against the Mahdi Army. Al-Khazraji was banned by al-Sadr from conducting sermons at the mosque in Kufa after he criticized al-Maliki in his religious sermon.
"There is a defect in their political ideology," he said. "Resolutions are taken by individuals and sometimes Muqtada Sadr is left in the dark by his inner circle as decisions are taken in his name."
The support he once enjoyed among Sunnis disappeared as his goal of Shiite domination became apparent. After sectarian violence spun out of control following the February 2006 bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra, his militia is now blamed for most Sunni killings.
"If he is sincere, in control and does not discriminate between Sunnis and Shiites, why are they out on a crusade to decimate the Sunnis?" said Muhanned Ismaeel, 28, a Sunni engineer who was once captivated by al-Sadr's fiery speeches.
"Why call out for us to support you when you kill our relatives, neighbors and friends? What deep game are you playing?" Saleh al-Mutlaq, a secular Sunni member of parliament, said al-Sadr has lost his chance to be a national leader and that the split in his movement has diminished his influence. "He is, in the eyes of most of the Iraqis, in charge of the sectarian killings," al-Mutlaq said. "He was supposed to be a national figure before, but he didn't do it. I don't think the Iraqis believe in him."
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/17048231.htm
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 4/19/2007 9:17:19 AM
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Mout Ahmar
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i have a question for every one pls. if maliki need sadr vote in parliment 2 survive what happens now sadr is pulled out of the iraq governemt?? do this mean that maliki can not have majority vote in parliment? if he can not have majority then how can he be pm? some one explain how this work 2 me pls. thank u
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 4/20/2007 9:04:54 AM
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Sadr (who is still in Tehran by the way) did what he was told. By withdrawing his block from the government he’s drawing a line in the sand and saying “we don’t need this government” and he’s right. It's the Maliki government that needs him. Thats how screwed up Iraq has become. Whatever anyone says about him Muqtada has far more support than Maliki amongst the people. I think Sadr is just posturing (egged on by Ahmadinejad, of course).
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 4/20/2007 9:26:03 AM
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i think he is doing this for the iranian government in the future to make easy for to rule mesopotamia and kill all the arabs just like the kurds they are doing the same in the stupid way to rule and all this ruling in iraq is all fake and bored and it has nothing to do with democrecy, it to do with the ruling the oil (petrol) and gaining power that's all.
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 4/21/2007 3:00:03 AM
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Mout Ahmar
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i think mr sadr is for sure close with the iranian gov. every one know this but sadr still have many folowers who will die for him in iraq. what dos this mean? that the iraqi have more closeness with the iranian gov that this iraqi 1. why do so many iraqis suport sadr if they know he is folowing his orders from iran? may be it means iraqis have lose the real identity becuase of all the wars and the big change that hapen after 2003? who is the real iraqi now? i wish i know becuase this is not the iraqi people i know from my time in baghdad.
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 4/21/2007 12:29:52 PM
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Latest news on the Mehdi boys..
US troops arrest Mehdi Army members
Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:42:10
US troops have detained twelve members of the Mehdi Army militia loyal to Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in northern Baghdad on Wednesday.
US troops seized Sheikh Ali Hossein Bayati, a top Mehdi Army official and 11 other militants in Al-Khales, in the Diyalah province, Iraq's Sot al-Iraq news agency has reported.
The men have been transferred to a disclosed location.
Moqtada al-Sadr holds the US occupation of Iraq responsible for the instability and violence that has crippled the country and has called for the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq over and over again.
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 4/26/2007 9:21:53 AM
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I had to put this one in because the headline made me laugh out loud. 
Iraqi Militia Want to Cut Prince Harry's Ears Off
Manchester evening news – 26 April, 2007
Two militia groups in Iraq have made it clear that they plan to target Prince Harry when he arrives in the country next month to spend a tour of duty in charge of 11 men and 4 Scimitar tanks.
Sunni insurgents have vowed to capture Prince Harry and use him as a hostage to demand that the UK withdraw its troops from Iraq. Shia rebels plan to mutilate the cornet with the Blues and Royals who is third in line to the British throne.
"We are awaiting the arrival of the young, handsome, spoilt prince…" a Mehdi Army commander said, "We… expect he will come out… on to the battlefield. We will be generous with him for we will return him to his grandmother but without ears."
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 4/26/2007 4:47:38 PM
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it is because to rule the south of mesopotamia and change it in to stupid crazy persian land, like they did the same thing al ahwaz region before 80 years ago and change it from arabic land to persian, they want to do it the same in the south of mesopotamia those basterds persians the kurds are doing the same thing.
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 4/27/2007 1:03:23 PM
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ORIGINAL: Mout Ahmar
but what is scare me is that i belive them! !
It looks as if the British Ministry of Defense believe them too. Read below:
MoD to review Harry's Iraq role
BBC News Online - Thursday, 26 April 2007
The decision to send Prince Harry to Iraq is being reviewed by senior army officers, it has emerged.
Eleven UK troops have died in Iraq this month, and officials fear Harry would be a major terrorist target.
LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6594223.stm
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 4/30/2007 11:31:36 AM
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All male British royals have served with the armed forces at some stage. The last one to be involved in a real conflict was prince Andrew during the Falklands war. The difference is that Andy was a helicopter pilot whereas young Harry will be a ground trooper. I very much doubt that the Brits will actually go through with this and Harry will be transfered to a "safer Location".
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 4/30/2007 12:05:28 PM
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Ok so I was wrong! 
Prince Harry will be deployed to Iraq with his regiment, the head of the British army has said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6609385.stm
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 5/5/2007 11:11:11 AM
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Shiite militias clash in Najaf, Iraq
By Tina Susman and Saad Fakhrildeen, Special to The Times - May 5, 2007
An incident at a checkpoint escalates rapidly, underscoring the potential for open conflict between the two powerful forces.
BAGHDAD — It started as a dispute at a checkpoint in the southern city of Najaf. It led to a showdown Friday between rival Shiite militias, with mortar rounds lobbed, guns fired and rumors flying that an aide to radical cleric Muqtada Sadr had been assassinated.
Nobody was killed in the incident, which sent ripples of unrest from Najaf to as far as Baghdad's Sadr City, 100 miles to the north, but the rapid escalation of rage underscored the potential for open conflict between two of Iraq's most powerful Shiite forces: Sadr's Al Mahdi militia and the rival Badr Organization. Both militias are tied to political groups that are vying for dominance among Iraq's Shiite majority.
The flare-up came on the weekly Muslim day of rest, which is normally relatively peaceful. But it proved volatile for Iraqis as well as U.S. troops.
Across the country, at least 14 Iraqis died in bombings and mortar attacks. In the most serious incident, a roadside bomb targeting a police patrol in southwest Baghdad killed five officers.
The U.S. military Friday reported the deaths of five American troops, bringing to at least 3,363 the number of U.S. forces killed since the March 2003 invasion, according to the website icasualties.org, which monitors war-related casualties.
The unrest in Najaf began when Sheik Salah Ubaidi, one of Sadr's top aides, was stopped at a police checkpoint. Most police in the city are linked to the Badr Organization, the armed wing of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, or SCIRI, the country's biggest Shiite political party.
At a news conference later, an indignant Ubaidi said the officers had refused to let him pass, even after he showed them his identification papers and explained that he was going to be late for Friday prayers. When they confiscated his ID, Ubaidi said, he angrily drove past the checkpoint, only to be blocked at another one.
"The next checkpoint intercepted me and opened fire in the air as they tried to force me out of the car," he said. "One of the officers yelled at me."
More yelling ensued, tempers flared, and soon Al Mahdi militiamen were on the streets of Najaf, carrying assault rifles and grenade launchers.
In the roughly 90 minutes Ubaidi was detained at the checkpoint, unable to contact family and associates, rumors spread that he had been assassinated.
Later, at least one mortar round crashed near a SCIRI office in Najaf, and gunfire broke out. Shops quickly closed and the streets emptied as residents became fearful of battles between the groups, which have clashed previously.
By 5 p.m., the city was calm and Ubaidi had been released, but the tensions had spread to Sadr City, the huge Shiite neighborhood in northeast Baghdad, where a mortar attack on a SCIRI office injured a guard.
Witnesses said the same building was attacked later by armed men, who left after an official from Sadr's local headquarters spoke to them.
Later, Nassar Rubaie, a spokesman for the Sadrist bloc in Iraq's parliament, accused the police of firing at Ubaidi's vehicle and assaulting him.
Rubaie denied that Al Mahdi militiamen had targeted SCIRI offices in Najaf but acknowledged that unrest in Sadr City was "because they heard the sheik was killed."
Also Friday, a U.S. soldier died in a roadside explosion south of Baghdad. Four others died Thursday: two in western Al Anbar province, and two in separate roadside bombings during patrols in east and west Baghdad. An Iraqi interpreter working with the Army also was killed in the west Baghdad incident, the military said in a statement.
A car bomb and two roadside bombs went off overnight in the northern city of Kirkuk, killing six Iraqis and injuring at least 33, police said.
Two mortar shells fell in a residential area southeast of Baghdad, killing two people, and one Iraqi died when a car bomb exploded outside Hillah, about 60 miles south of the capital.
In Baghdad, police reported finding the bodies of 15 people around the city believed to be victims of sectarian death squads.
U.S. military officials announced that Operation Rat Trap, an offensive targeting Al Qaeda-linked groups in Iraq, had resulted in the deaths of two high-ranking insurgents. The two were killed Tuesday in fighting with U.S. forces north of Baghdad. A statement identified the slain insurgents as Sabah Hilal Shihawi and Abu Ammar Masri.
Friday's military statement identified Masri as a foreign fighter involved in planning attacks and providing support for Al Qaeda in Iraq, the most powerful of the insurgent groups. He is not the same person as Abu Ayyub Masri, the apparent leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, who remains at large.
U.S.-led forces also said they had detained 16 people suspected of smuggling Iranian-made explosives into Iraq from Iran. The raids took place in Sadr City.
U.S. officials have long accused Iran of making highly lethal roadside bombs, known as explosively formed penetrators, which can pierce even tanks. Iran denies the accusations.
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Times staff writer Susman reported from Baghdad and special correspondent Saad Fakhrildeen from Najaf. Times staff writer Saif Hameed and correspondents in Baghdad, Kirkuk and Babil also contributed to this report.
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 5/9/2007 4:43:34 AM
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These Jihoosh Al Mehdi will sell themselves to the highest bidder. Read below:
Sadrist Current Announces Radical Reforms, Links with Sunni Insurgents
By AMER MOHSEN Iraqi slogger
The Iraqi and Arab media is reporting extensively on the latest political projects of the Sadrist Current. According to Al-Hayat, Muqtada and the rest of the Sadrist leadership have decided to institute far-reaching reform within their party’s organization, and to redefine their position in the Iraqi political scene. After a long period of difficult cohabitation with the government and the Shi'a-dominated United Iraqi Alliance (UIA), al-Hayat is saying that the Sadr Current has apparently decided to chart its own path, apart from the other Shi'a parties and separate from the government.
Sadrist leaders spoke to al-Hayat and confirmed that the prevailing tendency within the Current is to withdraw from the UIA “due to a divergence with the UIA’s parties over critical matters.”
In parallel, the Sadrist Current has announced the launch of a new political project termed “reform and reconciliation.” The Sadrists say that their aim is to group Iraqi parties from all sects into a project for national reconciliation, and to regain the “patriotic inclusive character” of the Sadrist Current.
Al-Mada reported on the same topic, adding that Sadrists have been holding meetings with Sunni parties (the Accord bloc) and Shi'a parties that have withdrawn from the government (namely, al-Fadhila). Even though al-Mada tried to present the new Sadrist initiative as not being directed against the current Iraqi government -- al-Mada said that the aim of the new front is to “rectify” the demarche of the government – the newspaper reported that a Sadrist withdrawal from the UIA is becoming a real possibility.
A major part of the Sadrist initiative, said al-Hayat, is to distance the Sadrist Current from the sectarian reputation that it has gained over the last years. The newspaper said that Sadrists are exchanging messages with Sunni figures “outside of Iraq” in order for the Current “to regain its image as a ‘resistance organization’ rather than a sectarian one.”
Al-Mada interviewed a Sadrist leader, Nasir al-Sa'idi, who claimed that his party refuses the sectarian tag. Al-Sa'idi told the newspaper that the UIA was not meant to be a sectarian bloc, but a political coalition open to all Iraqis, “but,” al-Sa'idi added, “the sectarian mobilization that occurred during the election period did not permit the Sadrist Current to take a different posture.”
Another important element of the new Sadrist strategy, al-Hayat said, is the purging of Sadrist members who were involved in sectarian killings. The Sadrist association with the “death squads” has profoundly –and perhaps, irreversibly – tarnished the reputation of the movement, even though the Sadrist leadership often claimed that sectarian killings were carried out by individuals who do not represent the Current, but affiliate themselves with it.
This may have been precisely the Achilles’ heel of the Sadrist movement since its inception: the Sadrist Current evolved in a markedly “de-centralized” fashion, with individuals carrying radically different agendas working under the broad Sadrist umbrella. In many cases, Sadrist offices were quasi-independent in their localities, acting under the Sadr name without having much links or direction from the central leadership.
According to the al-Hayat report, this situation is about to change. Quoting a Sadrist leader, the newspaper claimed that there is an attempt “cleanse” the ranks of the movement from members who committed criminal acts, have double loyalties or do not commit to the political agenda of the central leadership.
In other news, Az-Zaman reported that yesterday’s parliamentary session had to be postponed due to the absence of the speaker and the vice-chairs. According to the newspaper, the deputies who came to attend had to suffer from the lack of air conditioning in the parliament’ hall, because US troops refused to allow the tankers carrying fuel for the parliament’s generators from entering the Green Zone – where the parliament is located.
Temperatures in Baghdad during the summer often rise to over 100 degrees, and with the dismal state of Iraq’s electricity, all citizens -- even deputies -- need private generators to operate air conditioners. With the summer months approaching – when electric consumption spikes – Iraqi media has been warning of an approaching crisis in the electricity sector if quick measures are not taken to rectify the situation.
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 5/10/2007 12:50:10 PM
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Lion of Babylon
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Salam to you all. Look the Mahdi army are a bunch of illiterate, desperate fools. They dont concern me as much as the well equipped, organized and US backed Militia disguising themselves as Ministry of interior body guards. Im talking about the government run death squads responsible for the murder of thousands of Iraqis with no one to judge them for their actions.
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 5/10/2007 12:52:20 PM
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Lion of Babylon
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By the way cool title for the thread. 
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 5/13/2007 7:32:27 AM
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azinorum
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ORIGINAL: Lion of Babylon
Salam to you all. Look the Mahdi army are a bunch of illiterate, desperate fools. They dont concern me as much as the well equipped, organized and US backed Militia disguising themselves as Ministry of interior body guards.
Yes you are correct but this doesn't change the fact that this thread is lovingly dedicated to my own "favorite" moronic Militia THE JIHOOSH AL MEHDI. To be honest I didn't think this thread would last this long but the number of responses would suggest that I'm not alone in hating and wanting to highlight the Mehdi boys indiscretions. You must remember that until recently these Jihoosh had representation in the New Iraqi Parliament so the Shia death squads were not alone in enjoying this "official" status. Don't forget that not only are these illiterate lost people represented in Parliment but they are lead by a self proclaimed man of God!   
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 5/14/2007 4:05:29 PM
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azinorum
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ORIGINAL: Lion of Babylon
Look I hate the Mahdi Army too but I hate the Ministry of Interior death squads even more.
So start up a thread dealing with the subject. I'll be a regular contributor.
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 5/16/2007 3:34:23 AM
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Mout Ahmar
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ORIGINAL: Lion of Babylon
Fair enough. Look I hate the Mahdi Army too but I hate the Ministry of Interior death squads even more. Read this article for further information:-
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21601111-2703,00.html
can u plz tell me who strat this death squad? i mean is it from maliki time or before? thank u.
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 5/16/2007 12:39:43 PM
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azinorum
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From Ibrahim Al Jafari's time.
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