He's Baaa-ack

[SoCalDem]

Vacation's over, folks.. he's ready to take over..


http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=222163

Sadr militia battle troops in four Iraqi cities
03-25-2008, 15h50
BAGHDAD (AFP)

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Smoke rises from the area where fierce gunbattles erupted between Al-Mahdi Army and Iraqi security forces in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. Moqtada al-Sadr's militiamen Tuesday battled troops in three Iraqi cities on Tuesday, including the capital, as the hardline Shiite cleric threatened a countrywide campaign of civil revolt.
(AFP)

Moqtada al-Sadr's militiamen battled troops in four Iraqi cities on Tuesday, including the capital, as the hardline Shiite cleric threatened a countrywide campaign of civil revolt. Heavy clashes broke out between Sadr's Mahdi Army fighters in the southern oil city of Basra, killing at least seven people and wounding 48, and in Kut and Hilla, both south of Baghdad, officials said.

As evening fell, Mahdi Army fighters fought with Iraqi and US forces in their Sadr City bastion in eastern Baghdad for the first time since last October, a security official and witnesses told AFP. Troops had surrounded the sprawling impoverished neighbourhood of two million people and armed Shiite fighters were roaming the streets, a witness said. The fighting, which severely strains a ceasefire declared by Sadr in late August and renewed last month, prompted the cleric to issue a stern warning that he would launch protests and a nationwide strike if attacks against his movement and "poor people" are not halted.


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[onethatcares]

1. and so the surge begins from the other side

this could get very nasty, very quickly.

[islandmkl]

2. nice of him to coincide his vacation with the surge....

played jr. and the boys like a flute...they probably actually BELIEVED the 'surge' was working (imagine their surprise)...

al-Sadr is the power-center...and it will most likely be shown how powerful he is with human lives...

yeah, this f***ing surge has just worked out fine....

END THIS WAR!!

[SoCalDem]

3. We've been paying him to not fight..but now his men are rested

ours are bone-tired, and pissed because the surge is going to last indefinitely..

He's aligned with Iran, and is ready to pick up where he left off..

He plans to take over the whole place..