According to an AP story in the Washington Times, lovable butterball, al-Sadr sent a message to his followers that he had read by an aide;<\/p>\n
“I’m certain, just like all oppressed Iraqis are certain, that no security plan will work, and no good will come of any occupier,” Sheik al-Sadr said in the statement.
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0“Here we are, watching booby-trapped cars exploding to harvest thousands of innocent lives from our beloved people in the middle of a security plan that is controlled by an occupier who does as he pleases.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\nBack in January, al Sadr said the same thing<\/a>, and then started feeling the heat<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and dashed off to Iran this month<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0– I guess giving your life for islam is a priviege that’s reserved for the rank-and-file dregs.\u00c2\u00a0Now that he’s safely in Iran, he feels his oats enough to flex his lips and, through an aide, incite his troops back into the streets. The only reason he took his militia off the street was to keep them from being irradicated by the US forces. And keep them around to consolidate his own power after the US left.<\/p>\n
I hope US commanders just surge the living shit out of the Mahdi Army and don’t stop this time. It’s a pretty good guess that they’re running out of time and equipment. The AP reports that another weapons cache<\/a> suspected to be derived from Iran has been discovered outside of Baghdad which brings the total to 63 caches found since February 15th.<\/p>\n