Iraqslogger: Sadr’s back in Iraq
posted at 10:37 pm on March 8, 2007 by Allahpundit
They’re quoting Nahrain Net, which I’m guessing is a Shiite news source given the prominent ad for the Saddam execution video on its front page. Here’s the article about Sadr (I think) in case any we have any Arab-speaking readers interested in the primary source.
Allegedly he’s in Karbala where no doubt he’ll attend Friday prayers tomorrow and then spend Saturday ostentatiously observing the Shiite holiday of Arba’een. What he does after that will be interesting: crawl back to Iran and lie low or capitalize on the excitement generated by this evening’s resurrection by coming out to fight? I’m guessing neither. He’ll go back to Najaf and issue dopey anti-American statements periodically. Just to remind everyone he’s around.
Or maybe he’ll surprise us all by going into Sadr City with the local Six Flags representative and just hookin’ it up.
Exit question quotation, from the Daily Telegraph’s dispatch tonight from inside the Baghdad war room:
The representative of the paramilitary Iraqi National Police complained the Americans were too fastidious to fight a fast moving civil war. “In my personal view everything takes too long,” he said. “Once we gather the information we go at once. The Americans always take a long time. They ask too many questions. Sometimes they want videotapes. It lets the suspect get away.”
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if they think they can do it better with impartiality, they are very, very, very, very, very, very, very welcome to.
jummy on March 8, 2007 at 10:45 PM
The Americans always take a long time. They ask too many questions. Sometimes they want videotapes. It lets the suspect get away.”
The Iraqi Army doesn’t have Leftist lawyers watching their every breath.
harrison on March 8, 2007 at 10:46 PM
If he is in Iraq, let’s go get him. Bush is out of the country, maybe we can keep it a secret and let V.P. Cheney issue the order. Bush has lost his balls.
Wade on March 8, 2007 at 10:51 PM
Can anyone reconcile al-Sadr return with this development?
billy on March 8, 2007 at 10:56 PM
its slipping away already? wishful thinking, i know, but we were talking about how maliki would need 30 seats to meaningfully confront militant dominance and there’s 15 of them it seems.
jummy on March 8, 2007 at 11:06 PM
Is iraqslogger the guy who said our military was targetting journalists? Or was he the guy who admitted that his news organization lied to get exclusive interviews with tyrants?
Kevin M on March 8, 2007 at 11:17 PM
There, in a single quote, is the reason this War/Conflict has not been resolved and US and Coalition troops continue to die………. Money harrison, so right on, it will fly right over the liberals head….
PinkyBigglesworth on March 8, 2007 at 11:21 PM
Hey, if a blogger can find him, so can a Predator and a Hellfire.
Tony737 on March 8, 2007 at 11:23 PM
Come on now..this is a misinformation campaign. They are looking/watching what our next move will be.
lsutiger on March 8, 2007 at 11:37 PM
Hey, if a blogger can find him, so can a Predator and a Hellfire.Wade on March 9, 2007 at 8:38 AM
Me bad. Need less coffee. What a mess of that last post, but you get the idea I hope.
Wade on March 9, 2007 at 8:40 AM
“Just pull the wires”.
Who woulda thunk it?
csdeven on March 9, 2007 at 9:10 AM
News out of Iraq more and more reminds me of that old parable about the blind men describing an elephant.
And is it just me or do these people have an unusual amount of religious holidays? They’re worse than the French.
honora on March 9, 2007 at 1:34 PM
Yah think? And howz about all of the “holy” cities and “holy” sites. Every time we bomb somewhere it turns out to be a “holy” city. Every building that gets razed turns out to be a “holy” site of Al-Somebody. Yet these places are home to the worst hatred and intolerance on the planet.
Mojave Mark on March 10, 2007 at 12:34 AM