A supporter of Moqtada Al Sadr celebrates near a burning U.S. Army truck (Reuters)
As-Sadr is an outlaw. From AP:
The top U.S. administrator in Iraq declared a radical Shiite cleric an "outlaw" Monday after his supporters rioted in Baghdad and four other cities in fighting that killed at least 52 Iraqis, eight U.S. troops and a Salvadoran soldier.The fiercest battle took place Sunday in the streets of Sadr City, Baghdad's largest Shiite neighborhood, where black-garbed Shiite militiamen fired from rooftops and behind buildings at U.S. troops, killing the eight Americans. At least 30 Iraqis were killed and more than 110 wounded in the fighting, doctors said.
Violence broke out Monday morning in another Shiite neighborhood of the capital, al-Shula, where followers of the cleric clashed with a U.S. patrol. An American armored vehicle was seen burning, and an Iraqi man was seen running off with a heavy machine gun apparently taken from the vehicle. A U.S. helicopter hovered overhead. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
Meanwhile, U.S. troops on Monday sealed off Fallujah ahead of a major operation code named "Vigilant Resolve," aimed at pacifying the city, one of the most violent cities in the Sunni Triangle, the heartland of the insurgency against the American occupation.
U.S. commanders have been vowing a massive response after insurgents killed four American security contractors in the city, west of Baghdad, on Wednesday. Residents dragged the Americans' bodies through the streets, hanging two of their charred corpses from a bridge, in horrifying scenes that showed the depth of anti-U.S. sentiment in the city.
Some 1,200 Marines and two battalions of Iraqi security forces were poised to enter the city in a raid to capture suspected insurgents, officials said. They would not say when the sweep would begin.
A Marine was killed Monday in Anbar province, where Fallujah is located, the military said, without providing further details. On Sunday, a suicide attacker detonated a bomb-laden vehicle as he tried to enter a U.S. base in the northern city of Kirkuk, killing one U.S. soldier and wounding six Americans and six Iraqis, the military said. A roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier in the city of Mosul.
The violence pushed the U.S. death toll in Iraq to at least 613.
The insurgency that has plagued U.S. troops in Iraq for months has been led by Sunni Muslims. But Sunday's clashes in Baghdad and three other cities threatened to open a dangerous new front: a confrontation with Iraq's powerful Shiite Muslim majority, which has until now largely avoided violence with the Americans.
Hundreds were wounded in Sunday's violence in Baghdad, Najaf, Nasiriyah and Amarah. The riots were ignited by the arrest of an aide to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Followers of al-Sadr also took over the offices of the governor in the southern city of Basra.
In response, L. Paul Bremer, the top U.S. administrator in Iraq, declared al-Sadr an "outlaw" who threatens Iraq's security.
"Effectively he is attempting to establish his authority in the place of the legitimate authority. We will not tolerate this. We will reassert the law and order which the Iraqi people expect," Bremer told a security team meeting convened to discuss how to respond to Sadr.
Bremer did not say if U.S. authorities would move to arrest al-Sadr, but the declaration stepped up the confrontation with the 30-year-old firebrand cleric, who fiercely opposes the U.S. occupation and is backed by a militia known as the "Al-Mahdi Army."
"There is no room for militias in the new Iraq. ... If there are militias that seek to exert control, we will address that head on. And that is clearly what we are doing right now," a senior U.S. official said Monday.
Al-Sadr does not hold widespread support among Iraq's Shiites, many of whom see him as too young, radical and inexperienced to lead. But he does have the backing of hundreds of young seminary students and many impoverished Shiites, devoted to him because of his anti-U.S. stance and the memory of his father, a Shiite religious leader gunned down by suspected Saddam agents in 1999.
Al-Sadr has demanded an immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, and his followers have protested against U.S.-backed local officials in several towns in the south in previous months. But the cleric's political program has often been unclear.
The violence Sunday was a sign of al-Sadr's strength.
Al Sadar should have been arrested weeks ago, when he began his anti-US ranting. We need a Patton or a Macarthur leading the troops in Iraq, not the current crop.
Did any of the more important targets get out of Fallujah while the videos were being studied?
Can anyone tell me why the city couldn't have been surrounded BEFORE the videos were being viewed?
These are not all the people of fallujah, again it is the iranian influence that should have been stoped after iraq. Iran must be stoped before its to late. Like the muslims brotherhood, iran and syria two islamic countries out to destroy the world.
What? No room for "militias" in Iraq? So who was it that just murdered 12 Americans today? Donald Duck?
Judy Weismonger
IT IS AS I HAVE STATED, MOSLEM MEN ARE HOMOSEXUAL, AND CHILD RAPISTS... I HAVE SAID THIS OFTEN....AND MADE A POINT OF THIS. AND IT IS ADDICTIVE, THAT IS WHY THEY ARE DEFENDING THEIR "CULT" TO THE DEATH, BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOTHING IN THIS IN THIS LIFE, NOTHING, BECAUSE THEY INVEST NOTHING IN THIS LIFE BUT PAIN ON THE LIVING. THEY USE THEIR CHILDREN AS BOMBS...AND USE THEIR WOMEN'S WOMBS AS BOMB FACTORIES...
ISLAM MUST BE DESTROYED, IT IS THE MOST EVIL, CARNAL, HIDEOUS, DESTRUCTIVE ORGAN OF DISASTER TO HIT THE EARTH, WORSE THAN ANYTHING EITHER HITLER OR STALIN EVER CREATED....
THE KORAN IS A MURDER BOOK, AN ILLUSIONIST'S NOTEBOOK, A TOOL OF HYPNOSIS, AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL FOR MASS WARFARE...IT MUST NOT STAND IN THE MODERN WORLD. IT IS NOT A BOOK ABOUT GOD OR ALLAH, BUT ONLY USES THE WORD "GOD" FOR LEGITIMACY.
LISTED BELOW ARE THE PERVERSIONS DREAMED UP AND USED BY MUHAMMAD TO REINFORCED GIVING ONE'S LIFE TO ISLAM, MUCH LIKE AN INSECT GIVES UP ITS LIFE TO PRESERVE THE "HIVE." YES, A FULLY BRAINWASHED MOSLEM IS LIKE AN INSECT PROTECTING THE HIVE (ISLAM) WHO NEITHER CARES ABOUT ITSELF OR ITS FAMILY, OR YOUNG, ONLY PROTECTING THE HIVE...IN THIS CASE...ISLAM...AND IS REINFORCED KNOWING THAT IF IT DIES...HE, DYING AS A MARTYR, WILL BE REWARDED BY EITHER "VIRGINS" OR "YOUNG BOYS" KNOWN IN THE KORAN AS "THE FRESHEST OF PEARLS."
HERE...THEREFORE IS WHAT MALES ARE GIVEN IN THE AFTERLIFE FOR KILLING AND MURDERING CHRISTIANS, JEWS AND NONMOSLEMS WHO DO NOT SUBMIT TO ISLAM (THE HIVE):
VIRGINS (HOURIS)
Mohammed knew that sex would sell very well among the group of his lecherous followers who were motivated to fight battles by the promise of sex slaves and booty. Once the followers got to heaven, they could pleasure themselves with endless sexual encounters with 'Houris' (beautiful young virgins)... 72 virgins girls and 28 young pre-pubescent boys. Mohammed goes one step further and expands the promise of virgins to include a free sex market where there is no limit of the number of sexual partners. Women and young boys are on display as if in a fruit market where you can choose the desired ripeness. Allah is indeed merciful!
Relevant verses from the Koran and quotes from the Hadiths:
Koran 78:31
As for the righteous, they shall surely triumph. Theirs shall be gardens and
vineyards, and high-bosomed virgins for companions: a truly overflowing
cup.
Koran 37:40-48
...They will sit with bashful, dark-eyed virgins, as chaste as the sheltered
eggs of ostriches.
Koran 44:51-55
...Yes and We shall wed them to dark-eyed houris. (beautiful virgins)
Koran 52:17-20
...They shall recline on couches ranged in rows. To dark-eyed houris
(virgins) we shall wed them...
Koran 55:56-57
In them will be bashful virgins neither man nor Jinn will have touched
before. Then which of the favors of your Lord will you deny ?"
Koran 55:57-58
Virgins as fair as corals and rubies. Then which of the favors of your Lord
will you deny ?"
Koran 56:7-40
...We created the houris (the beautiful women) and made them virgins, loving
companions for those on the right hand.. "
Koran 55:70-77
"In each there shall be virgins chaste and fair... Dark eyed virgins
sheltered in their tents whom neither man nor Jin will have touched before..
2. YOUNG BOYS
Homosexuality was and is widely practiced in Islamic countries. To please
the homosexuals among his followers he promised them pre-pubescent boys in
Paradise.
Below are relevant verses from the Koran and quotes from the Hadiths:
Koran 52:24
Round about them will serve, to them, boys (handsome) as pearls
well-guarded.
Koran 56:17
Round about them will serve boys of perpetual freshness.
Note: Famous poets in Arabia glorified homosexuality. Below is the poem, "Perfumed Garden" by Abu Nuwas:
O the joy of sodomy!
So now be sodomites, you Arabs.
Turn not away from it--
therein is wondrous pleasure.
Take some coy lad with kiss-curls
twisting on his temple
and ride as he stands like some gazelle
standing to her mate.
A lad whom all can see girt with sword
and belt not like your whore who has
to go veiled.
Make for smooth-faced boys and do your
very best to mount them, for women are
the mounts of the devils
Koran 52.24
And there shall wait on them [the Muslim men] young boys of their own, as fair as virgin pearls."
Koran 76.19
They shall be attended by boys graced with eternal youth, who will seem like scattered pearls to the beholders."
As the months pass...I will repeat this again and again till it becomes crystal clear...all Moslems read the same Koran.
The Koran is an instruction book for taking over countries and protecting the hive (Islam).
The Koran promises perversions in the afterlife if one kills for islam now. Moslems are use to flying under the radar...until called to war.
There are many kinds of warfare, many kinds of jihad, violent as well as subtle. Just being a good role model, and leading people to Allah through religious conversion is a form of psychological warfare.
Using women's wombs as bomb factories, and children's as bombs is just another form of warfare. Everything is legal in the Koran if it leads to world domination by Islam...nothing is sacrosanct, including the growing of heroin in Afghanistan and selling it American children.
Judy Weismonger