Moqtada Sadr Ready to Support Mujahideens in Fallujah

[Aidoneus]

short piece, anybody know of a longer version?

Moqtada Sadr Ready to Support Mujahideens in Fallujah

24 October 2004 | 15:12 | FOCUS News Agency

Fallujah. The radical Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr expressed his readiness to support “the Mujahideens in Fallujah”, the Sunnite stronghold north of Baghdad, which is being under U.S. forces’ pressure for the last several weeks, AFP reported.

“I am ready to assist the Mujahideens in Fallujah. I denounce the attacks on Iraqi cities and I am ready to put an end to that”, reads Sadr’s statement, distributed in Baghdad and Najaf.

“The invaders have no mercy, that is why our resistance would continue”, the announcement also reads.

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http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=138&newsid=50377&ch=0&datte=2004-10-24

[saigon68]

1. I GUESS HE ISN'T SITTING THIS ONE OUT.

[DuctapeFatwa]

2. I can't find another paper, but it sounds reasonable to me

Anybody who doesn't denounce the attacks on Iraqi cities - well....

[Ohio rules]

9. Al Jazeera would be all over it if it was real

al Sistani has more credibility than al Sadr.

that Russian news source is bullshit without middle eastern newssources to verify it..

[DuctapeFatwa]

11. Al Jaz has been declawed. All it took was couple of murders. bombing

their office a few times, a leg or two, and a suggestion to the Emir that Qatar could just as easily be Iraq, and they caved.

[bemildred]

3. Thanks, been waiting for what Moqtada would have to say.

Don't see it anywhere in English news yet.

Edit: they have apparently resumed "weapons searches" in Sadr City,
so it would be no surprise it things heated up again.

[leftchick]

4. They gave some Sadr City kids a job today....

Iraqi youths paint traffic barriers of the main road in Baghdad's Shi'ite suburb of al-Sadr city, October 24, 2004. Iraqis started reconstruction work throughout al-Sadr city two days after the cash-for-weapons exchange program instituted by the interim Iraqi government to pacify the slum of Sadr City. REUTERS/Ali Jasim


:eyes:

[Aidoneus]

5. that's actually the least-dumbest thing they could do with them

Still a fair bit patronizing and ridiculous in context, but eh..

[Disturbed]

6. Al Sadr should run for PM

He would win.

[bemildred]

7. Well, somebody has a clue.

But most likely not enough somebodies.
If we gave EVERYBODY jobs, the war would have been over.

[Aidoneus]

8. thought you would

I didn't have an answer (or at least, an answer to the right question) when you wondered before.

-Sayyid Sadr proves once again that he trascends nearly every stereotyped tendency in the nation.
-SCIRI & the Salafi/Arab-Nationalist tendencies that liberated Fallujah are not at all on good terms and there are periods of open warfare between them (Yusufiyah, Latifiyah, & Iskandariyah--south of Baghdad--, for instance, were taken from them months ago and are now referred to in the occupyers' press briefings as "enemy insurgent terrorist strongholds"). They're held to be "Iranian/US/etc" spies by the resistance anyway, so I doubt they'll care and that is mutual.
-Sayyid Sistani is on nebulously good terms with pretty much everybody, but I don't think he's recently taken a stand on this just yet. He will be pressed to if he is to mean anything to the other 20% (the Kurds already hate him & Sadr), though that doesn't mean he will.. perhaps he will quietly delegate the matter to Sadr, for there already exists an opening for those channels and he does not necessarily have to do so personally.

The Bulgarian press, this & Novonite that I myself know of, seem to have pretty consistantly good coverage of these things (of course, taking an interest in the matter at having been dragged into the heart of it), but also consistantly pretty bare-bones at that. A fair trade-off, I suppose..

[The Magistrate]

10. That Is An Interesting Possibility, Sir

An effective alliance between the Grand Ayatollah and Mr. al'Sistani would be a striking development. There would seem to be some good reasons for them to make at least a temporary alliance, and the field of action for a "good cop-bad cop" act berween them in current circumstances are immense....

"My brother before my cousin; my cousin before my neighbor; my neighbor before a foreigner."

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"

[Ohio rules]

12. Wrong holy man quoted

this from an Egyptian holy man;


Islamic Leader Calls for Iraq Resistance
By SALAH NASRAWI
ASSOCIATED PRESS

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - In his most public support of militant Islamists, the leader of Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday called on Iraqis and Palestinians to step up their resistance against the United States and Israel.

In a speech to hundreds of the movement's members and supporters, Mohammed Mahdi Akef urged the Muslim world to "provide all the necessary material and moral support" to the Iraqi insurgents.

"We are with the Iraqi resistance as a righteous duty imposed by Sharia (Islamic law) and sanctioned by international laws," Akef said during an annual banquet his group hosts for supporters and the news media during the holy month of Ramadan.

"The Iraqi resistance is the protective wall which defends us all," he said.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1928 and has spawned branches throughout the Muslim world. It was banned in 1954 for advocating violence to turn Egypt into an Islamist state.
...
...

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-eur/2004/oct/20/102006117.html

[bemildred]

13. Al Sadr has done what I expected.

I would have been disappointed if he said something else, or been silent.
Although al Sistani did get off his duff to end the battle of Najaf,
I expect him to sit and watch unless things become similarly
excruciating. It is interesting to wonder if that is his role,
or his predilection, or both.

WRT other matters, the noise level is much too high, and I don't feel
like speculating. Too many outside meddlers pursuing their various
stupid little plans. I mostly divide them up based on how they seem to
feel about a unified, truly sovereign Iraq, that seems a good rule of
thumb. The ones that want a unified, sovereign Iraq have a common
interest, the others have separate agendas.

[SoCalDem]

14. Oooooh.. that sneaky widdle wascal.. He's gettin' no supper.... for lying

Did anyone ever think he would unilateraly disarm??? anyone except our military??