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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 6/11/2007 11:14:04 PM
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I missed it.  Maybe they will post it on youtube?
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 6/14/2007 2:26:44 AM
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Moqtada Returns Chanting No to USAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTVwRddwt88
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 6/19/2007 12:46:24 AM
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Hi MA. This dude is far to stupid and ignorant to be the devil. When I think of him the first words that come to mind are illiterate Jackasssssss.
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 6/20/2007 3:31:02 AM
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Can anyone concieve of sadr ruling Iraq one day? With all the morons we have in our country the prospect is not as far fetched as it might seem. Scary thought!
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 6/20/2007 11:59:44 PM
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 Here is the ABCD of Sadr and his Mehdi sheep:
A = Animals
B = Bums
C = Cattle
D = Dumbasses
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 6/21/2007 12:02:07 AM
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Some reports about everyones favourite bums, Sadr and the Mehdi Army:
Sadr and Sistani meet for first time in three years
By Saadoun al-Jaberi
Azzaman, June 16, 2007
Anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and the country’s top Shiite Ayatollah Ali Sistani had their first meeting in three years last week, a senior aide to Sistani said.
Both leaders wield tremendous influence among the country’s majority Shiite population which so far has not openly opposed U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq.
But Sadr has been vociferous in his rejection of U.S. occupation and in the past staged two large-scale uprisings against the U.S. rule.
The aide said the meeting took place in the old quarters of the holy city of Najaf. Both leaders reside in Najaf and their armed men often clashed in the past over the guardianship of the holy shrines in the city, Shiite Muslims’ most sacred.
Reports of the meeting surfaced following increasing sectarian tensions over the bombing of major Shiite shrines in the Sunni-dominated town of Samarra north of Baghdad.
Sadr’s movement has 30 deputies in parliament and commands large following in major quarters in Baghdad and cities in southern Iraq.
He has a powerful military wing, the Mahdi Army, which analysts say is financed and armed by Iran.
The aide, who refused to be named, declined to reveal what went on in the meeting. He would only say the two clerics “exchanged views about the political and security conditions in Iraq.”
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2007-06-16%5Ckurd.htm
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 6/21/2007 12:03:12 AM
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More.....
The Mahdi Army and the government forces burned the mosque Khodeir al-Janabi in Baghdad
Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI)
June 13, 2007
This afternoon the Mahdi Army militia burned the mosque Khodeir al-Janabi in al-Baiah neighborhood in Baghdad. Local sources stated that the Mahdi Army militiamen attacked the mosque in collaboration with the forces of the so-called "Save the System".
Last week the Fattah Pasha Mosqueal-Baiah was bombed by these militias and by government forces backing them.
http://uruknet.info/?p=m33663&s1=h1
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 6/21/2007 12:05:21 AM
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TWO DAYS OF CLASHES BETWEEN POLICE AND MEHDI ARMY IN IRAQ'S NASS
19 Jun 2007 05:48:58 GMT
Source: Reuters
BAGHDAD, June 19 (Reuters) - Two days of fighting between gunmen loyal to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and Iraqi police have killed 23 people and wounded 110 in the southern city of Nassiriya, a hospital doctor said on Tuesday.
The clashes erupted on Sunday night when police attacked a Sadr office in Nassiriya in an apparent response to an attack on the head of police which wounded him.
Nassiriya is one of Iraq's oil-rich cities and has been relatively calm until recent days.
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 6/21/2007 12:08:04 AM
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and more....
Sadr Urges March on Samarra
NAJAF, Iraq, June 16--Moqtada al-Sadr called on the Iraqis Saturday to march on Samarra next month to protest the bombing of the holy Askarein shrine.
In a statement issued by his office in the holy city of Najaf, al-Sadr said, "I call upon Iraqis to march to Samarra on July 5."
Sadr hit out at religious and political leaders for failing to react more strongly to Wednesday's bombing of the Al-Askarein shrine.
"Whatever the triangle of evil (US, Britain and Israel) and their followers do to us, whether it is the killing of the faithful or the bombing of our shrines, no one among the Shiites is trying to dissuade them," he complained.
Moqtada al-Sadr also criticized the main parties, including politicians from his own movement.
"Where are you Badrists? Where are you Sadrists, the Fadhilas? ... Why don't you take a position regarding the Samarra attack?" he asked.
Even though Samarra lies north of Baghdad in Salaheddin province, Sadr said he hoped Shiite marchers would be welcomed by local Sunnis.
"I hope the Sunnis of Iraq will be waiting for you with open arms," he said.
Sadr said it is the duty of Shiites to provide their shrines with the protection that was currently lacking.
"It is our duty to defend them in the best way that we think," he said. "It was my duty to call everyone to defend our shrine."
Wednesday's bombing, which destroyed two gold-topped minarets, was the second against the Al-Askarein shrine by terrorists.
A February 2006 attacked destroyed the shrine's golden dome.
http://www.alalam.ir/english/en-NewsPage.asp?newsid=041030120070616132139
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 6/21/2007 12:16:54 AM
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Last one for today...
Al Sadr Bloc condemns British forces action
Wednesday, June 20, 2007 07:32 GMT
Al Sadr Bloc confirmed that it will carry on suspending its participation in the Parliament. In a news conference, the bloc condemned the attack of British Forces on some regions in Maysan Province while Head of the Bloc Nasar Al Rubaie wondered about handing over command to security forces in the province which he considered as words not deeds. MP Bahaa Al Araji affirmed that an agreement has been reached between Al Nasiriya governor and Al Sadr Office in Najaf in order to end the clashes in the province.
http://www.alsumaria.tv/en/Iraq-News/1-4491-Al-Sadr-Bloc-condemns-British-forces-action.html
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 6/21/2007 2:43:24 AM
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I found some more....
Exposed: Sadr's Ramblings, Anxieties
Embarrassing Leaked Video Shows Sadr, Deputies Bickering
One day after the Pentagon identified his Mahdi Army as eclipsing al Qaeda in Iraq as "the most dangerous accelerant" of violence in that country, IraqSlogger has obtained a video of Muqtada al Sadr in which he rambles, questions the loyalty of deputies, and appears to struggle to control his own organization.
The Arabic-language video, apparently recorded in October, recently surfaced on Iraqi Web sites critical of Sadr.
The seven-and-a-half minute video is streamed in its original Arabic-language above.
A translation of the entire video follows after background on Sadr and his Mahdi Army.
Background: The young cleric who rose to power from anonymity following the American overthrow of Saddam has basked in the glory of his father's name. Muhamad Sadiq al Sadr was one of Iraq's most important clerics who was assassinated in 1999 and was called the Second Martyr. Sadr represented the poor and oppressed Shia underclass that had remained in Iraq, and he built around him a vast following and a militia, the Mahdi Army, which now dominates the Iraqi Police and much of the Iraqi Army as well as various ministries and Shia neighborhoods.
But evidence on the ground suggests Muqtada al Sadr is merely a figurehead for an army with no real leadership or hierarchy, which acts locally. Sadr has also clashed with many deputies, firing close allies.
In a video of an internal debate among his men that was released without his approval, a different Sadr is seen, and it is clear how little control he has over his men and how jealously he guards his tenuous power.
Speaking in poor Arabic, all slang, Sadr reveals his jealousy and insecurity as well, criticizing a deputy for praising Abdul Aziz al Hakim, the leader of the rival Shia Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq.
The video begins with a public relations man in a grey suit from Muqtada al Sadr's office in Baghdad's Kadhmiya district, which is run by Hazim al Araji.
The man in the grey suit is talking to Sadr in a tone that verges on disrespectful.
MAN: "The student organization will need ... We have done everything we could but if you want us to work more or to make more progress it's up to you. We will need you to direct all your offices and institutes to support the project. According to a formula you choose and you already know the importance of the project.
The students make up 90% of the Sadr Current. About 90% of the attendees in the Friday prayer are youth. The Sadr Current is a youth current and the youth are ignored. Instead of spending two million dinars on a celebration, what does a celebration do? You should use the money to organize the youth, otherwise someone else will come to organize them. There are so many secular organizations that will attract them like a magnet just like what happened during the time of Seyid Mohammed Baqir Al Sadr, when the Marxist party attracted all the youth including the sons of the clerics. This might reoccur within two or three years. Secularism is attractive in Iraq. It's true that the economy is not prosperous nowadays but in two or three years this could change. The league ..."
(Sadr interrupts the man, hunched over, and speaks in strong slang)
SADR: "Leagues and...? Unions and leagues but in practice what are they doing, my dear? We have spent over a year hearing: "found a league", "establish an institution", "make a foundation" and make I don't know what. Which all means actually "give me money" and I haven't seen any results. I am not talking about you only I am talking about you all."
(A cleric seated by Sadr interrupts him)
CLERIC: "Our master, we mean spending money on the organization is better than spending it on celebrations that cost two or three million dinars."
SADR: "I made celebrations, my dear? You can't come to criticize me. I didn't make celebrations."
CLERIC: "Some of your offices have done that."
SADR: "I had nothing to do with that. Why don't you go to the office and ask them why they have spent two million on celebration. I haven't given anybody any million to make celebrations. I don't have two million to give. This is not to be discussed in front of the camera and you don't have the right to. If I gave you two million, wouldn't you spend it, my dear? I am sure you will. Correct yourself and then criticize others. Enough with the nagging: criticism, criticism, criticism. You are like the newspapers after finishing criticizing the enemies they launch their missiles against Sadr Current. Not like this, my dear. Fear Allah, you are in the public relations office and I respect you but I won't let you insult others. Who spent two million? Come on tell me who is it that spent two million? From one side they beg me to give them money and the other side you come to tell me they spent two million, I don't know, unless that is Hawasim (looted). If it is Hawasim then I have nothing to do with that..."
(Hawasim is a reference to Um al Hawasim, or the Mother of all Decisive Battles, the name Saddam gave to the last war; during the first Gulf War he called it the Mother of all Battles; following the war, all looted goods became commonly known as Hawasim)
(The cleric is still arguing in the background as Sadr speaks)
SADR: "All the offices (say), "Give us money to establish foundations" and I have been begging for the last six months to open a public library. I was telling you to support the charities like foundations for children, old people, and women, disabled, I don't know what... Only 'give money, give money, give money,' I was telling (them) to build schools. You are a public relations office man and I haven't seen anything from you with all respect to you.
CLERIC: "We have a lot of work to do!"
SADR: "I have seen only one thing from you. You were....As the Sadr current, we were insulting people 24 hours (a day) and now we are trying to open channels with the people that you were insulting. This is wrong. Not like this and not like this. We have to make standards and have to follow them. Don't insult them and don't beg them. I respect you a lot but I am not happy with the fact that you use the mosque's podium to praise Abdul Aziz (al Hakim)."
CLERIC: "who praised Abdul Aziz?"
SADR: "I heard you on TV"
CLERIC: "What did I say?"
(Sadr smiles)
SADR: "Shrewd politician," I don't know what..."
CLERIC: "I didn't say that. I said, "Thanks is due to Abdul Aziz al Hakim" and I think it is much less than what you said about him when you said "God praise him." I am ready to face anyone that says he heard me saying Abdul Aziz is a shrewd politician."
Sadr interrupts, laughs, and speaks in a high-pitched and dismissive voice)
SADR: "I heard you saying that on the TV myself."
CLERIC: "In the Friday mosque sermon?"
SADR: "Yes, in Friday's sermon in Kadhmiya"
CLERIC: "I have the Friday Kadhmiya speech recorded on a CD that Adil will get you, all I said was "thanks is due to Abdul Aziz" about the issue of Jordan. I said no one has condemned what the Jordanian tribe of Al Banaa has done (a suicide bomber in Iraq hailed from that tribe) except our office and "Abdul Aziz, which is commendable."
SADR: "Thanks is due, thanks is not due... Stay balanced, do not stoop low, and do not flatter. We have standards and don't get out of that. It's very important."
CLERIC: "What I said does not critique or flatter or make us beg him, ok? It was simply a stance, ok, I just want to point out his attitude. We simply made a reasonable commendation of his act I wanted to thank his attitude and to the limit of the reasonable. Despite the fact that his initiative on that subject was substantial."
SADR: "I am saying that I don't like what you are doing. I am talking about something else, what you are doing does not please me, it simply does not please me."
CLERIC: "And how would we know what you like and what you don't?"
SADR: "I'll tell you this. I don't agree you make connections with ministries. I don't agree that you visit a party ten times and I don't agree that you use the mosque pulpit to praise people and parties. Don't attack them and don't praise them. I'll tell you. You are the public relations manager of the Sadr office, for which I am responsible before society. You don't have the right to ignore my directives or not listen to me. Get me an agenda for the office work so I read it. Otherwise I won't agree."
CLERIC: "I criticized parties more than I praised them on the mosque pulpit. My criticisms are often acerbic, if you ever hear that I..."
(Sadr interrupts)
SADR: "Do not criticize either. Who said that I want you to criticise people? I don't want you to do that either. Act as if nothing happened or something never existed."
CLERIC: "The Iraqi street wants to hear politics."
SADR: "You are a religious man so talk about religion, talk about morals, talk about everything else..."
CLERIC: "The Iraqi street's main concern today is politics. I make the first part of the sermon about religion but who explains the political situation to Iraqis if not the Friday sermon? The satellite television channels are performing a horrific role. They make the right false and the false right. Who would clarify these things to the simple folk? People come to Friday prayer to hear politics and it is the role of the man on the pulpit to explain that. I can not keep people blind. I am following the fact that the second Martyr said in 1993 'I came to get the Shia out of the darkness.' I can not keep them in the darkness. This is not possible."
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 6/23/2007 3:54:32 AM
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For one lovely minute I thought they'd detained the jackass Sadr. 
IRAQI SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES DETAIN INSURGENT LEADER IN SADR CITY
BAGHDAD - Iraqi Special Operations Forces conducted an early morning operation June 20 and detained a key insurgent leader in Sadr City. This individual is allegedly responsible for coordinating and conducting kidnappings, death squad killings and improvised explosive device attacks against innocent civilians and Iraqi and Coalition Forces.
(Media-Newswire.com) - BAGHDAD - Iraqi Special Operations Forces conducted an early morning operation June 20 and detained a key insurgent leader in Sadr City.
This individual is allegedly responsible for coordinating and conducting kidnappings, death squad killings and improvised explosive device attacks against innocent civilians and Iraqi and Coalition Forces.
During the operation, Iraqi Special Operations Forces detained their primary suspect without incident. Iraqi SOF also detained two other suspicious individuals who were present during the operation.
The primary suspect is allegedly responsible for supplying vehicles, identification materials, and uniforms to support insurgent activities such as the kidnappings and extra-judicial killing of Iraqi citizens. He is also alleged to have received new technologies to upgrade improvised explosive devices that would be used to target Iraqi and Coalition Forces.
Coalition Forces served as advisors during the operations. No Iraqi or Coalition Forces members were injured during the operation.
http://media-newswire.com/release_1052827.html
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 6/23/2007 6:47:36 AM
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Lol. That would be a great day.
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 6/26/2007 10:20:10 AM
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Given that the Police are run by the government and the Jihoosh Al Mahdi are responsible for for the majority of attacks against the police, why isn't this useless government publicly condemning Sadr and his monkeys? Sadr has already withdrawn from Parliament so Maliki doesn't have to rely on the Sadrist vote any more. Does anyone know how Iraqi politics works? I sure as hell don't.
BAGHDAD, June 19 (Reuters) - Two days of fighting between gunmen loyal to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and Iraqi police have killed 23 people and wounded 110 in the southern city of Nassiriya, a hospital doctor said on Tuesday.
The clashes erupted on Sunday night when police attacked a Sadr office in Nassiriya in an apparent response to an attack on the head of police which wounded him.
Nassiriya is one of Iraq's oil-rich cities and has been relatively calm until recent days.
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 6/28/2007 3:06:48 AM
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Ya3nee shinnoo?? People come and go through our borders and no one stops them from doing as they please? The Mehdi Army controls the South so who else are we to blame but Sadr. What a joke.
Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces have been spotted by British troops crossing the border into southern Iraq, the Sun tabloid reported on Tuesday.
Britain's defence ministry would not confirm or deny the report, with a spokesman declining to comment on "intelligence matters".
An unidentified intelligence source told the tabloid: "It is an extremely alarming development and raises the stakes considerably. In effect, it means we are in a full on war with Iran -- but nobody has officially declared it."
"We have hard proof that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps have crossed the border to attack us. It is very hard for us to strike back. All we can do is try to defend ourselves. We are badly on the back foot."
The Sun said that radar sightings of Iranian helicopters crossing into the Iraqi desert were confirmed to it by very senior military sources.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...ow_article= 1
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 6/29/2007 1:30:20 AM
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Dude, as soon as the Americans go home Basra will turn into Iranistan with the Mehdi Army taking all the credit.
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 6/29/2007 1:32:31 AM
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Some Jaish Al Mehdi News!
Iranian Arabs: Mahdi Army in Iran
Sources in the “Ahwazian Revolution Information Center” have alleged the presence of Sadrist elements and cadres in the Ahwaz region of southwest Iran, which has a large ethnic Arab population.
In a statement, the center says its sources have observed some of the leadership of the Mahdi Army and its elements in the two border cities of Muhamra and Abadan, with the escort of Iranian guards, and under the auspices of the administrative area (qa’im maqama) of Abadan. The Sadrists arrived in “not insignificant” numbers, the statement says, and their appearance was noticed on Sunday in these two cities on the border near Basra.
This area of Iran, also known as Khuzistan, has a large Arab population. The Ahwazian Revolution Information Center represents an ethnic Arab movement within Iran, and is opposed to the Iranian regime. The Ahwazian Center's statement alleges that the administrative area of Abadan prepared the facilities for the Sadrists travel in these two cities, and has supplied them with identification and Iranian permits, so that their presence can go unnoticed.
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 6/29/2007 1:35:44 AM
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Mahdi Army's Deadly Housecleaning?
Rumors of Special Team for Hits on Rogue Cadres
The Mahdi Army may be doing some very deadly housecleaning, according to the buzz around Baghdad. Sources in the capital say that Mahdi Army members have been disappearing or turning up dead in the Sadr City, Kadhimiya, and Baladiyat areas of the capital. However, the usual anti-Mahdi Army culprits of the US and rival Iraqi militias are not to blame for the deaths and disappearances, according to the rumor mill. These are said to be inside jobs. According to the word on the street, a “special team” has been dispatched from Najaf to dispose of Mahdi Army members who have been criminal or disloyal, or who have “disgraced” the Mahdi Army. Slogger has not yet been able to confirm these reports. The Mahdi Army was shedding members from its ranks. Assassinations of disloyal members would take those purges to a new level.
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 6/29/2007 1:39:37 AM
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I hate these guys. I mean I really hate them. They're turning Iraq into one of the most corrupt, uneducated countries in the world.
Mahdi Army Members Threaten Teachers
License to Cheat: Some Students "Protected" during Final Exams
As Iraqi high school students sit final exams, members of the Mahdi Army have threatened Iraqi teachers, warning them that some students must be allowed to cheat. In a move reminiscent of something out of The Sopranos, members of the Mahdi Army have warned teachers in Baghdad’s 'Allawi district not to interfere with students as they take the final exams, a Slogger source reports. The exact wording of the threat was not to “upset” the students as they take the exams, but the meaning is well understood as granting protection to students connected to militia members to cheat on the exams.
It is not known how widespread these threats are within the Mahdi Army organization. The militia's organization structure is opaque, and the Sadrist current, led by the young Shi'a cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, has struggled to purge or discipline individuals who call themselves Mahdi Army associates but who do not follow official Sadrist policy. As with many acts committed by Mahdi Army members, it is unknown whether the threats against Iraqi schoolteachers are sanctioned by the leadership of the Sadrist organization.
Such militia interference in the educational process could have chilling repercussions throughout the educational system, as teachers do not always know which students are connected to militia support, a Slogger source familiar with the educational system pointed out. High school seniors through the country are sitting the national exams this week. For Iraqi students, the stakes of the exams are high: Results of the exam will affect students’ college placement and career paths. Under the Iraqi system, as in many other countries, higher scoring students will have the ability to seek training in what are traditionally more respected and better-compensated fields such as engineering or medicine.
National exams were postponed for two days after the bombing of the al-Askari shrine in Samarra earlier this month, as the government imposed a curfew on the capital and Samarra. They had already been delayed before the Samarra bombing after test questions were leaked to students. Mahdi Army members’ interference in the final exams is part of a wider pattern of interference by armed groups in the examination process. Militias controlling predominantly Sunni Arab areas of Baghdad, such as al-Jami'a, al-Khudraa’, and al-'Amiriya have threatened students from attending the exams at all.
Upon learning of the Mahdi Army threats in 'Allawi district, one Slogger contact, in classic Iraqi dark humor, joked that the Sunni and Shi'a militias approach the exams in the same way they approach the political process: Sunni militias seek to block them altogether and threaten all who participate, while members of the Mahdi Army accept the legitimacy of the exams but seek to influence them from “inside the system.”
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 6/29/2007 1:42:41 AM
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Basra Has New Sheriff In Town
Mehdi Army Now the De Facto Law in Basra
Der Speigel delivers the uncomfortable news that Tony Blair won't. In this Shia area, the Mehdi Army is in control. The same organization that the Americans and Iraqis are set to battle in Baghdad. The town's police is efficient, albeit dominated by members of the Mahdi, a Shiite militia loyal to Moqtada al-Sadr. According to journalist Ghalid Khazal, 75 percent of the city's police officers follow orders from Sadr headquarters. That number is roughly the same as that mentioned by General Major Hassan Sawadi, the former police chief of Basra, one and a half years ago, when he said. "I estimate that 80 percent of the force's members do not obey my orders."
Basra is a model for what may lie ahead for the rest of Iraq. A quasi functioning, semi destroyed, half empty, half full scenario in which ultimately the Iraqis will be left to pick up the pieces. The Shia militias were among the first after the invasion to band together via the mosques. In the early spring of 2003 they quickly sent armed men to stop looting in schools hospitals and government buildings. Portraits of Saddam were quickly replaced with hastily painted images of Sadr. The U.S. military was then sent in to forcibly remove many of these groups replacing them with U.S. appointed functionaries.
Currently Basra has much less violence per capita, the oil fields are producing at capacity (limited by destroyed and aging equipment) and although there is criminality and fighting the area has the best chance of stabilizing its government. The South may not be a model for the U.S. withdrawal but it may be a harbinger of the future if the Shia's ethnic cleansing of Sunni elements Baghdad continues. "Abd al-Karim al Insi, the Basra representative of Shiite ruler Moqtada al-Sadr, sees the departure as affirming an adage popular among Arabs during British colonial exploits in the region 100 years ago: "Nobody knows Mecca better than the people from Mecca."
"Since the invasion, we have pushed for the occupiers to leave Iraq," al Insi said. "Nobody can protect our country better than we can. We welcome this first step in the British withdrawal. Hopefully the Americans will present a timetable soon."
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 6/29/2007 2:09:00 AM
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Tensions in Samawa between Sadrists and security forces:
Tribal leaders in the Muthanna governorate called on PM Nuri Al-Maliki to visit their governorate to be informed of what they described as “security tensions” in Samawa, while the Martyr Sadr Bureau in the governorate issued a statement accusing security forces of resorting to “provocative actions aiming to drag the Mahdi Army into an armed conflict,” Voices of Iraq reported today.
“These conspiracies are not new to us,” the Sadrist statement said. “They started when certain tribal leaders moved against us, accompanied by false rumors made against the Sadrist Movement.”
Ali Al-Kharsan, head of the Sadr Bureau, said he had escaped an assassination attempt with a roadside bomb planted near the Martyr Sadr Bureau in downtown Samawa last Tuesday. Al-Kharsan, said his bodyguards captured a suspicious person planting a bomb near his convoy, and that he admitted to working on the behalf of “security officials” in the Muthanna governorate. The official said he would not turn in the suspect to SIIC-dominated security forces in the governorate.
A curfew was imposed on Wednesday night after Mahdi Army militiamen were seen deployed in several parts of the southern city.
The city has so far been unaffected by clashes between Sadrists and security forces in nearby southern cities of Diwaniya, Nasiriya, Basrah and Amara.
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RE: Wife swapping Mehdi Army - 6/29/2007 5:11:45 AM
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Now what are the odds that the Anbari tribes will engage the Mehdi Jihoosh once they reach Abu Ghraib?
US-backed tribal forces fighting Sunni militant groups around the Falluja area are advancing eastward towards the Abu Ghraib area, as a month-long curfew in the city and attacks on the communications infrastructure in the city have left most residents unable to operate their automobiles or telephones.
The price of gas in Iraq may be climbing, but residents of Falluja have stopped tanking up their cars for another reason: A curfew enforced by US and Iraqi forces has been | | | |
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