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Iraq-Jordan
al-Sadr declares that 9-11 was a ’miracle from God’
2004-03-28
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The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S. were "a miracle from God," and Israel’s assassination of Hamas’ terrorist leader was a "dirty crime against Islam," says a prominent Shiite cleric in Iraq. During Friday prayers at a mosque near the holy city of Najaf, Moqtada al-Sadr praised the attacks that killed some 3,000 Americans, reported CNN. "As we say, ’The rain starts with a drop,’" al-Sadr said.
So does urination and carpet bombing.
Okay, he's hit the limit. Time for al-Sadr to be educated about actions --> consequences.
The cleric called Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon the "biggest terrorist of all" for killing Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin, whose terrorist group killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. Sharon "has committed this dirty crime and killed one of the greatest of Islamic mujahedeen," al-Sadr told hundreds of worshippers at the Kufa mosque, according to CNN. "This was once again a dirty crime against Islam." He accused the United States of complicity in the killing and led worshippers in chants: "No, no Israel! No, no to the Jews! No, no America! No, no to terrorism!" Al-Sadr, who has a powerful base of support in Baghdad, railed against the U.S. presence in Iraq, urging the worshippers to "seek the spread of freedom and democracy in the way that satisfies God. They have planned and paved the ways for a long time, but it is God who is the real planner – and the proof of this is the fall of the American Twin Towers."
One would think that career bombers might be unpopular in Iraq currently, but go figure.
Posted by:Super Hose

#14  This from a cleric whose faith has just been freed from how many decades of vicious repression by those who endured the attacks he now extolls. Freedom of speech it might be, but a more profound ingratitude is impossible to imagine. Hundreds of our brave soldiers are dying in their forsaken cesspit of a country so that this bilious fuckwit can enjoy the liberty of condeming us and cheering about the 9-11 atrocity.

This maggot has the nerve to lead a crowd's chant of "No, no Israel! No, no to the Jews! No, no America! No, no to terrorism!" So, it's "No, no to terrorism" when it comes to offing a malignant murdering pig like Yassin, but slaughtering thousands of innocent people is just fine. This turd needs a few months in solitary confinement with hard labour and short rations for inciting violence against American soldiers.

I hope the next Kurdish car bomb is disguised as this rotting slime bag's fucking taxi, with the dynamite charge directly under al-Sadr's shriveled microscopic scrote. I want this shithead's putrescent vapours wafting into paradise on the next khamsin.
Posted by: Zenster   2004-04-02 6:35:27 AM  

#13  
To me killing al-Sdar is a practical question. But, I am willing to argue it on moral, effects, historical or Psycho/Sociological grounds.

It is just an interesting Q.

As I wrote somewhere, hopefully not here, Kill McKinley and you get a vastly more powerful American through Teddy Roosevelt, kill Kennedy and you get a full blown Viet Nam War, kill Lincoln and you get a failed reconstruction... assassination works.

Also, as someone noted, kill Martin Luther King and you get both black power and the failure of Jesse Jackson.

But it is the linkage of God and bringing down the Twin Towers that I want to kill...it is not Sdar that is the problem...it is the idea and the birth of a mythic narrative in Muslim lands that I want to strangle in the cradle.

I don't care a wit about al-Sdar himself...it is the ideas in his head that I wish dead.

I know, I know, ideas are hard to kill. Well certainly, that's what wars are really all about...the predominance of one historical mythos, direction/thread/switch/fork-in-the-road over another.

I am just trying to find a way to short-circuit the looming next war before it happens.

Best Wishes,

Posted by: Traveller   2004-03-28 8:17:09 PM  

#12  Is Sharon the only one with stonse big enough??
Posted by: anymouse   2004-03-28 6:03:54 PM  

#11  He who speaks arabic with an Iranian accent.
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-03-28 5:11:31 PM  

#10  We could turn that around, it was a Miracle from God, because God's hand is going to bring democracy to your world. It just took God's hand a little while to get going.
Posted by: Anonymous2U   2004-03-28 2:36:19 PM  

#9  You know that Moqtada al-Sadr, well, you can't Torqemada his hatred for slaughter. He ain't nothin' but some old Bani Sadr. Du-datta, du-dattat. Du datta, du dattat. I'm votin fer Nadr
Posted by: jonlemming   2004-03-28 1:26:23 PM  

#8  If he who hates and calls 3000 slaughtered a miracle, and who no longer hates on this earth, but, instead hates in hell, having consigned himself there by that unrepentant hate; I say lets help him make his appointment with judgement
Posted by: Comment Top   2004-03-28 1:19:21 PM  

#7  so when they gonna kill this fucker?
Posted by: smokeysinse   2004-03-28 1:00:06 PM  

#6  so when they gonna kill this fucker?
Posted by: smokeysinse   2004-03-28 12:50:08 PM  

#5  These guys need to start seeing cause/effect principle. He need one of our "miracles from God" to launder his turban. They do respect power when it slaps them in the face. Esp kinetic metallic shapes travelling at Mach 3.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2004-03-28 12:02:45 PM  

#4  
God who is the real planner – and the proof of this is the fall of the ...

...Taliban and Saddam regimes.
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Posted by: Mike Sylwester   2004-03-28 9:15:54 AM  

#3  Probably a line of US Snipers waiting to be called for shooting Al-Sadr.
Posted by: Charles   2004-03-28 8:51:55 AM  

#2  ..attacks on the U.S. were "a miracle from God," ...and the proof of this is the fall of the American Twin Towers."


Tag'em and bag'em
Posted by: Raptor   2004-03-28 7:38:59 AM  

#1  I've floated this idea before...and there were some really fascinating reasons given for not pulling the trigger...but they seemed to be specifically & distinctly American reasons for not assassinating al-Sdar. I hate to say this but Yassin was left on the stage for about 10 years too long to preach and propagate his version of hate.

I hope that the same mistake isn't made about al-Sdar. There is always the concern over who comes next, but no one could be worse. Mr. Sdar is our responsibility as Yassin was for Israel.
Posted by: Traveller   2004-03-28 6:22:59 AM  

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