Iran says Muqtada al-Sadr is NOT in Iran - I say he is in US custody with a bag over his head

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http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/18/iran.sadr/index.html

Where is al-Sadr? Not in Iran, official says
POSTED: 5:36 a.m. EST, February 21, 2007

Story Highlights• Spokesman: U.S. waging "psychological" war against Iran

• Earlier Bush administration said al-Sadr in Iran; now they don't know
• Members of al-Sadr's Mehdi militia were told to leave Iraq
• Iran spokesman: If Iran attacked, West in peril

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman denied Sunday that Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical Iraqi Shiite cleric who opposes the U.S. presence in Iraq, is in Iran.

"Muqtada al-Sadr is not in Iran," Mohammad Ali Hosseini said, according to the semi-official Iran Labor News Agency.

Hosseini labeled as "propaganda" U.S. suggestions to the contrary, accusing the United States of waging a "psychological" war to pressure Iran.

Last week, an Iraqi government official said al-Sadr departed Iraq for Iran a few days earlier, just as coalition forces were staging security crackdowns on insurgents.

Sami al-Askari, a member of parliament and a political adviser to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, provided no details.

Earlier last week, Bush administration and U.S. military officials also said al-Sadr was in Iran and had been there for about two weeks. (Read the full story)

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1. could be why condi feels free to mock him, or maybe she's just stupid?

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2. Might be why Bush seems able to turn on and turn off the insurgency at will?

It was great luck that al-Sadr called for a cease fire just as Bush's surge began.

Or was it?

Don

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3. Plus Bush's thugs always need to have a bogeyman to scare everyone with

And Sadr fits that bill. Just a bunch of Iraqis who are fighting back rather than capitulate to our torturing and killing them doesn't fit the scenario the propaganda the media feeds to us on a daily basis tells us to believe.

Don

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4. The only way to get him now is to bomb the shit out of Iran.

These people are so. freaking. obvious.