Apr 21 2008
Mahdi Army Targets Iraqi Shiite Leaders?
If Sadr does have control of his Mahdi Army then he is in deep trouble in Iraq because Mhis forces have targeted and attacked a major Shiite center – basically completing his path from opposition leader to traitor and enemy of Iraq:
A missile struck the central Baghdad headquarters of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council on Monday, said an official for the party, which is the main rival of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr for control of Shi’ite areas.
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Sadr’s Mehdi Army fighters have launched missile and mortar strikes across Baghdad since Maliki ordered a crackdown on them a month ago.
Many of those missiles and mortar bombs have struck the Green Zone fortified government and diplomatic compound on the west bank of the Tigris river.
The Council’s office is in the Karrada neighbourhood in the centre on the opposite bank.
The Iranian provided missiles and rockets have shown ever increasing precision – so this may not be an errant strike but a full up attack on the Shiite council which have sided with Maliki and against Sadr. Sadr really is going to go for the traitor’s path. His father, a famous Shiite resistance leader killed by Saddam, must be spinning in his grave.
Major Update: Now it is being reported there was no missile or mortar hit.
Dale is gonna be CRUSSSSSSSHED.
Darnnit AJ, who am I going to embarras on a daily basis, if you ban “TRUTHMASTERBATES”??
He’ll just come back under his old sock-puupet aliases, such as “Worm” or “Ken(ker)” or “Bootlicker” or “THECENTERISABUNGHOLE”!
I can smell toasted Leftist already……AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
.”Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff, is quoted as saying that the perpetrators of torture could well be arrested and tried in other countries as war criminals if they travel abroad. It is an index of the despotism to which the United States has fallen victim that we must hope for other, more civilized countries, to try our war criminals. Why can’t public officials be prosecuted for violating the Bill of Rights’ guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment? Why can’t an International Military Tribunal be set up as at Nuremberg?
So not only did the Bush administration use the Pentagon to snow the American people via retired generals, but one of the things they were concerned to cover up was the major practice of torture at Guantanamo. They took it off the national agenda.
There were lots of innocents swept up by Rumsfeld’s vacuum cleaner at Guantanamo. (See this new memoir from Palgrave Macmillan) The Bush administration resists this conclusion and has even said it would not release prisoners found innocent! The Taliban used to sell people to the Americans, and would often finger innocents; it got the Taliban out of trouble and could even be lucrative. A handful of Iraqi Shiites who had escaped to Afghanistan from Saddam, the poor bastards, were then turned over to the Americans as dangerous terrorists by their Sunni enemies. I don’t know if they were ever released, even though the US then allied with Iraqi Shiites to overthrow Saddam!
Although there are some terrorists at Guantanamo, torturing them was not only illegal but also a very bad idea. Under torture, Ibn al-Shaykh Libi told the US that Saddam Hussein had training camps in Iraq used to school al-Qaeda in the use of chemical weapons. Dick Cheney and Condi Rice both cited this false confession as a reason to go to war against Iraq.
While UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray discovered the ways in which the US and its satellites were using torture to manufacture stories about al-Qaeda threats that did not exist, as a means of rounding up people and torturing them into admitting they were al-Qaeda, which in turn justified US bases, more billions for the military industrial complex, etc.
posted by Juan Cole @ 4/21/2008 07:00:00 AM 4 comments
patriot Wilkerson sends a little morality and reality Atlanta way.
Hey AJ,maybe you could carefully let another Moonbat in for Dale.Kinda like trying to let just one bee outta the jar.
Well, thank goodness.
I have to say that this place will be much more pleasant now that he/she is no longer here dragging down the IQ average.
AJ, your blog just jumped 17 spots on the ratings list.
🙂
Everyone keep your eyes peeled.
Truthie was just one of many socks.
I’m sure there will be a reappearance.
I’m gonna miss that little bugger, I really am!
Its not that often you can find an infinite amount of stupidity crammed into one single solitary person…
Oh, I forgot, unless you go over to Democratic Nutbagsunderground…Truthlessout.org….The Bluffington Post….The Daily Kos-omac….etc., etc…
It was kind of interesting the last couple of days after he cracked and began to admit openly just how much he hated this country.
Meanwhile in Stupidland:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020756.php
“A reliable source has informed me that Condoleeza Rice has approved a new lexicon for State Department usage, absolutely forbidding the use of the terms “jihad” and “jihadist” by any State Department official.”
Rice should just send a memo to the entire state department to keep their mouths shut…period. Foggy Bottom usually has foggy thinking.
Dale– what’s your opinion on the Army defying Gates’ on lengthening tours and the reports out yesterday that more serious felons are now being accepted by your military?
I don’t know if the Condi rumor is true, but the last few days she is on record hectoring Sunni nations to come to the aid of Iraq against Iranian influence! Bwahaha.
blusteringtraitor,
I will take the liberty of answering the question that you posed to Dale.
I think that it is great that the military is giving these felons the opportunity to serve their country.
They have, after all, paid their debt to society and have, presumbably, chosen to forge ahead on a new path for themselves.
Your mileage may vary however. Perhaps you would rather them not be allowed to readmit society as normal, productive citizens.
How much punishment is enough in your shallow mind?
As far as I’m concerned the mercenaries in Iraq are no better.
If you’re unprepared, like Rumsfeld said, you gotta go with the
Army you can get quickly.
What angers me is the purposeful Army defiance of Gates in extending the tours.