US troops will leave Iraq “in coffins”: Sadr aide

[sabra]

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?col=§ion=focusoniraq&xfile=data/focusoniraq/2007/January/focusoniraq_January84.xml

US troops will leave Iraq “in coffins”: Sadr aide
(AFP)

BAGHDAD - A senior ally of radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada Al Sadr warned on Friday that thousands of the planned 21,500 extra US troops en route for the war-torn nation would “go home in coffins”.

Launching a new strategy to rescue Iraq from civil war, Washington told the government of Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki, who owes his job to Sadr, it was on “borrowed time” and declared new “no holds barred” military operations.

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“The American people have to prevent their sons from coming to Iraq or they may return in coffins,” threatened Sheikh Abdel Razzaq al-Nadawi, a senior official in Sadr’s movement, slamming the planned US troop increase.

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Sheikh Jaber Al Khafaji, another close Sadr aide, also slammed the new US strategy during his Friday sermon in the Shiite holy city of Kufa.

“The Sadr movement rejects the new mundane policies. Their new strategy targets the faithful and believers who rejected the occupation, injustice and bondage,” he told worshippers.

[LynnTheDem]

1. A SHIA militia. The leader's daddy was killed...by Saddam.

Gee, I wonder why Hussein oppressed the Shia militias.

Doesn't matter though, Sunni or Shia; the MAJORITY OF BOTH back attacks on US troops.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003410658

[JoFerret]

2. Sounds like we have our Saddam replacement-in-waiting

Thanks BushCo - replace a secular tyrant with a religious fanatic.

[maxsolomon]

3. gotta love ME hyperbole

its so productive. he does realize that we could kill everyone in iraq if we wanted, right? don't taunt a sociopath.

hey, abdel:

[Psephos]

4. He's going down.

He's not too bright, it seems.