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2007-01-29 Iraq

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-01-29 09:39|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 So.... instead of the sign of the cross like Christians do, will his followers do "Oh SHIT!" and duck and cover from the 500lb JDAM?

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-01-29 09:47|| 2007-01-29 09:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Ha! Phony bastard!
I hate poseurs...

Posted by Ahmadinejad 2007-01-29 10:19|| 2007-01-29 10:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Wassent me.

Posted by mahdi as a hatdi 2007-01-29 11:33|| 2007-01-29 11:33|| Front Page Top

#4 the article points out that: "Women and children who joined 600-700 of his "Soldiers of Heaven" on the outskirts of the Shi'ite holy city may be among the casualties"...but fails to mention if PUPPIES may also be among the casualties!

Posted by Justrand 2007-01-29 11:54|| 2007-01-29 11:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Sounds like a small end-timer sect, I assume the sects will get bigger.

Posted by Shipman 2007-01-29 12:19|| 2007-01-29 12:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Shipman, don't you mean "get buggered"?

Posted by RWV 2007-01-29 12:22|| 2007-01-29 12:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Indeed. Let us prey.

Posted by Shipman 2007-01-29 12:26|| 2007-01-29 12:26|| Front Page Top

#8 One has to feel for the women and children. They were so looking forward to stripping and abusing the corpses of their fallen enemies.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-29 12:44|| 2007-01-29 12:44|| Front Page Top

#9 I am concerned this whole battle may be just a diversion for something bigger. There seem to be significant elements of both AQ Sunni and apocalyptic Shia involved in it. The Apocalytists don't seem to be very 'professional' in their battling - which makes me suspect they may be nothing more than 'useful idiots' for some other group with some other plan.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-01-29 13:07|| 2007-01-29 13:07|| Front Page Top

#10 You're well on your way to understaning the muzzie mind Glenmore. Their phueching lives evolve around conspiracies of all shapes and colours.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-01-29 13:11|| 2007-01-29 13:11|| Front Page Top

#11

Mahdis come, Mahdis go.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-01-29 13:33|| 2007-01-29 13:33|| Front Page Top

#12 Z, at 'Healing Iraq', posted the following regarding this battle:

"An Iraqi security source, however, as well as the local Iraqi media, identified the militants as members of a Shiite splinter group called Al-Mahdiyoun or Ansar Al-Imam Al-Mahdi, which if true means the U.S. military was once again duped into doing the dirty work of SCIRI and other Shiite factions and, I daresay, Iran for them."

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-01-29 13:43|| 2007-01-29 13:43|| Front Page Top

#13 "This was a perverse claim. No sane person could believe it."

I guess sanity is a relative thing, too.

Posted by gorb 2007-01-29 14:12|| 2007-01-29 14:12|| Front Page Top

#14 Oh crap -- more virgins!

Posted by Mahdi bin Ali bin Ali bin Abi Taleb 2007-01-29 14:31|| 2007-01-29 14:31|| Front Page Top

#15 "There are precedents in Islamic history for such violent cults."

Does anybody want to field this one....?

heh.

Posted by Mark E. 2007-01-29 16:01|| 2007-01-29 16:01|| Front Page Top

#16 The worst part of this report is that they're actually using embryos in this conflict.

"Though Sunnis and Shi'ites are engaged in an embryonic sectarian civil war in Iraq..."

This madness must be stopped. It's bad enough that Hezbulla is arming children. But using the unborn in Iraq? Disspicable.

Posted by OregonGuy">OregonGuy 2007-01-29 17:07|| http://oregonguythinks.blogspot.com/]">[http://oregonguythinks.blogspot.com/] 2007-01-29 17:07|| Front Page Top

#17 [/emilylitella]

Posted by Parabellum 2007-01-29 17:55|| 2007-01-29 17:55|| Front Page Top

#18 Cage match between the Mahdi and the 12th Imam, who would win?

Or are they the same thing?

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-01-29 18:24|| 2007-01-29 18:24|| Front Page Top

#19 Cage match between the Mahdi and the 12th Imam, who would win?

Same thing, I think. See also "Anti-Christ".

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2007-01-29 20:20|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-01-29 20:20|| Front Page Top

#20 Melikey the following two sentences in this article.

"Today was supposed to be the day of his coming."

The U.S. military declined to provide details, saying operations were continuing.

All I can say is...if'n our infidel boyz can keep the Mahdi from gettin' his due, I'ma gonna back 'em even more than I already do. Allan Snackbar, baby!

Posted by BA 2007-01-29 20:36|| 2007-01-29 20:36|| Front Page Top

#21 Anonymoose

Bob Bob Bob Bob Bob Bob Bob Bob Bob...

Posted by 3dc 2007-01-29 22:04|| 2007-01-29 22:04|| Front Page Top

#22 Does that mean the Anti-Christ (Muslim Dajjal) won the battle? Another prophecy bit the dust.

Posted by Sneaze Shaiting3550 2007-01-29 22:06|| 2007-01-29 22:06|| Front Page Top

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