Al-Sadr says he is being targeted and has moved his family to safe place
Gulf News
Al Sadr said that 400 of his men had been arrested and that he is also being targeted, prompting him to move his family to a secure location, the Italian daily La Repubblica reported.
Pressure is increasing on Al Sadr’s militia ahead of a planned security sweep aimed at stemming the sectarian violence ransacking the Iraqi capital. Yesterday, US and Iraqi forces arrested one of the cleric’s top aides in Baghdad, his office said.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki has pledged to crack down on Shiite militias as well as Sunni insurgents in a planned security operation to quell the sectarian violence in Baghdad.
The Shiite cleric said he is being targeted.
“For this reason, I have moved my family to a secure location. I even have had a will drawn up, and I move continuously in a way that only few can know where I am,” he was quoted as saying by Repubblica.
“But even if I were to die, Mehdi would continue to exist. Men can be killed. Faith and ideas cannot,” he said.
Al Sadr said that “there are at least four armies” ready to strike against his Mehdi militia: a secret army he said was trained in Jordan by the US military, a private army he said is at the disposal of former Prime Minister Eyad Allawi.
Wild Thing’s comment……
I imagine he would not want his family to be subject to an IED or car-bomb going off in a public place, as he has ordered his militia members to do to others. What a coward he is!! After all that mouthing off we heard from him over the last year. Poor baby, payback is a bitch! Al Sadr thinks he’s being targeted? I hope he’s right.
Die terrorist die!
This guy looks like a regular at the buffet bar. I’d have the troops investigate any pizza deliveries with double goat cheese. Or do some lamb chops on the grill, that should smoke em out.
Al Sadr thinks he’s being targeted? I hope he’s right.
I hope to . Now its him who live in fear .
Poor Moqtada. He plays the terrorist game. Now he can wonder when that sniper’s bullet will find him, or where that Hellfire missle will come from. Or if captured, he can worry if his fat body will separate from his head at the hangman’s scaffold.
I hope our troops and the Iraqi Army clean house in Sadr City. I bet bunches of those 4oo captured Militiamen are giving up lots of good info as a prelude to the big battle.
Oh, poor baby!
The big old bully can’t take the heat.
Just like all big old bullies.
Run and hide and cry.
I guess he never heard the theme song to Baretta–Don’t go to bed with no price on your head, don’t do it!
What did he think we were going to do? Roll over and play dead?
Whoopsies–wrong answer.
Americans never play dead.
Round 2.
“But even if I were to die, Mehdi would continue to exist. Men can be killed. Faith and ideas cannot,” he said.
Let’s put that to the test. Let’s not leave Sadr City this time while he still draws breath. Then we can judge whether his word hold true.
Hope he meets the same fate as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
A rope would take justice too long to be served on him…
AubreyJ………
Sadr is a diaper-load like Nazrallah..a lard-ass coward badly in need of a wire brush shower.
They hide and don’t fight. Islamists are cowards, period. The occasional nutcase blows himself up under the influence of drugs, or doesn’t realize he’s on a plane headed for a building.
Zawahiri, same thing, although not a fat loser, a standing commercial for hemorrhoid. A snearing gray-faced artifact from the dead culture of Islam. Screw him, too. What kind of young man follows turds like these?
Americans will fight these bastards anywhere, any time. We need to kick out the cowards in Washington, first.
Let him whine all the way to his paradise ~ which I hope is very very soon.
Billy, hahahahahaha you are so funny.
RWC, I agree, now it is al-Sadr that can live in fear. He has done a lot of horrible things and truly needs to be taken out in every sense of the word.
Tom, I agree, let him wonder now when that sniper’s bullet will find him.
Lynn, good one! Yes that is just what he is made of….”run, hide and cry.”
razOr yes, this time no more promises, no more second chances for this vile person.
Aubrfey J., that would be good to have happen…the same thing that happened to al-Zarqawi.
Hi Rhod, good to see you.
I agree 100%……”Americans will fight these bastards anywhere, any time. We need to kick out the cowards in Washington, first.”
Yankeemom, I hope so too.