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Iraq
Iraq cleric prays for Bush to follow Sharon into coma
2006-04-15
BAGHDAD - The prayer leader of one of BaghdadÂ’s largest Sunni mosques asked God to make US President George W. Bush suffer the same fate as Israeli premier Ariel Sharon, who formally lost power on Friday after being declared permanently incapacitated by a coma.

In his sermon at the main weekly prayers in the capital’s Abdel Qader Al Kilani mosque, Sheikh Mahmoud Issawi raised his hands to the sky with tears flowing from his eyes and called on God to strike down the US president. “Lord, make the fate of the criminal Bush like the fate of the criminal Sharon, make him suffer in this world before the next,” Issawi said, before lapsing into silence, apparently overcome.
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He went on to say that the “forces of occupation” were responsible for the violence and killings currently taking place in Iraq. “Oh Lord, visit suffering upon the American people and show them your power. Leave their children without parents, their women without husbands and let their blood flow the way the blood of the Iraqis has flowed.

“The forces of occupation are engaging in the wholesale killing of the Iraqi people while Iraqi officials watch and bicker amongst themselves seeking only personal gain,” he said.
Posted by:Steve White

#7  Provide that cleric with a fainting couch and a nice comfy pillow over his face.
Posted by: JDB   2006-04-15 16:13  

#6  Errr... and in what exactly does this iraqi preach differs from the usual preaches in mosques all over the islamic world (and beyond)? I mean except for the dramatic silence after he wuz overcome.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-04-15 12:13  

#5  This should be followed shortly by a group of masked Iraqi government Interior Ministry personnel going to his house and beating him with canes until he is covered in welts, all the while calling him names like "traitor", "infidel", and "defiler".

Would do him a world of good.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-04-15 11:37  

#4  From the weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth, it sounds like another Sunni longing for the good old days when the Baathists plundered Iraq. Now that the 80% of the country that is not Sunni Arab is getting its fair share, donations must be waaaaay down.

The graphic is perfect.
Posted by: RWV   2006-04-15 02:20  

#3  Issawi needs a vacation - from living
Posted by: Frank G   2006-04-15 01:06  

#2  Must be a Democrat
Posted by: Captain America   2006-04-15 00:31  

#1  I take it he's never heard of Cheney?
Posted by: tu3031   2006-04-15 00:26  

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