Meet Iraq's future president.

[SoCalDem]

SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Jul-21-08 09:11 PM
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Meet Iraq's future president.


سيد مقتدى ...



Hojatoleslam Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr


Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr or Moktada al Sadr (سيد مقتدى الصدر Muqtadā aṣ-Ṣadr)

(born August 12, 1973) is an Iraqi theologian, political leader and militia commander.

Along with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani and Abdul Aziz al-Hakim of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, Sadr is one of the most influential religious and political figures in the country not holding any official title in the Iraqi government.

Muqtada al-Sadr is the fourth son of a famous Iraqi Shi‘a cleric, the late Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr. He is also the son-in-law of Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir As-Sadr.

Muqtada al-Sadr is of Lebanese ancestry. His great-grandfather is Ismail as-Sadr. Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr, Muqtada al-Sadr's father, was a well-respected figure throughout the Shi'a Islamic world.

He was murdered, along with two of his sons, allegedly by the government of Saddam Hussein. Some do believe it was an inside job ordered in February 1999 from Najaf, the stronghold of the al-Sadr clan. Muqtada's father-in-law was executed by the Iraqi authorities in 1980. Muqtada is a cousin of the absented Imam Moussa as-Sadr, the Iranian-Lebanese founder of the popular Amal Movement

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muqtada_al-Sadr

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Anyone who thinks that al Maliki or anyone even remotely LIKE him, will end up running the show effectively, is dreaming..


al Sadr's army has been on vacation, since the surge started. Why would he want to waste his resources and men during a beefing-up of American military?

Middle easterners measure time by the thousands' of years, they are patient, and they never forget an affront.

They are keeping score, and patiently going through the motions, because they know sooner or later we WILL leave, and once we are downsized or gone, al Sadr will step up and claim Iraq for his own...

The people will support him, and the ones who don't will be "dealt with"..

We are currently tidying up the Green Zone for his eventual occupation, and he knows it.. If you planned to steal a classic car, it would be smart to wait until it's completely restored, before you steal it

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. Are Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, or McCain the other candidates?

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. Sadr or Badr?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badr_Organization

Sadr isn't the only militant Shiite.

I hear that tens of thousands of Shiites are now signing up for the militias.

[KoKo]

3. And....I wonder if he and Chalabi are thick as thieves?

Because DOS is talking with Chalabi (remember him?) as possible replacement (along with a few others) for al Maliki.

[GeorgeGist]

4. For how long?