US troops will leave Iraq 'in coffins': Sadr aide

[tocqueville]

by Sabah Jerges
Fri Jan 12, 1:32 PM ET

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A senior ally of radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr warned 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.

A cornerstone of the new approach is increased pressure on Iraq's neighbours Iran and Syria -- which are accused by Washington of fomenting unrest -- and tougher action to deal with militias such as Sadr's feared Mahdi Army.

"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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070112/wl_mideast_afp/iraq

[HockeyMom]

1. Americans won't see those coffins coming home

like we did during Nam.

[madokie]

2. How is it not dissing the Fallen by shifting their coffins here and there in the dark

this bush* crew is full of it