Iraqi Shi'ite Militia Ready To Join Fight (Sadr ready to aid Hezbollah)

[ECH1969]

A senior member of Muqtada al-Sadr's Iraqi Shi'ite militia, the Mahdi Army, says the group is forming a squadron of up to 1,500 elite fighters to go to Lebanon.

"We are choosing the men right now," said Abu Mujtaba, who works in the loosely organized following of radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. "We are preparing the right men for the job."

Mr. Mujtaba, who was interviewed in Baghdad, said some of the men have had special training but did not specify what kind.

Sheik al-Sadr's black-clad armed militia numbers in the thousands, operates throughout central and southern Iraq and is thought to be responsible for numerous killings of Sunnis.

http://insider.washingtontimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20060724-122256-7766r

[IndianaGreen]

1. Swell, just what we needed!

Bush has succeeded in giving Iraqis a purpose other than killing each other!

[zreosumgame]

9. Hey! we're fightin' them there, so we don't fight em here!

well, over there, no THERE, damm now it's over that way, nope back-up it's there, fuck now it's over there of all places, look-out is behind you there!


and on and on and on....

[smacky44]

18. I wonder if we are ready to fight them here. With folks fleeing Israel

and Lebanon and coming here with dual citizenships and all, I wonder if the blood-letting will spill over to within our own borders?

[Nihil]

28. Some people would say "about time" ...

> With folks fleeing Israel and Lebanon and coming here with dual citizenships
> and all, I wonder if the blood-letting will spill over to within our own borders?

My, my ... just think, instead of "fighting them over there" people will have
to actually participate in the "fighting them over here". Not just TV and
colour supplement photos but REAL DEATH AND SUFFERING.

What's more, seeing as how some of the "fighting over here" will be done by
Israelis/Israeli-sympathisers, this would actually pit some members of the
USA against their favourite tax-beneficiary?!

There again, given the media "impartiality" in the US at the moment, there is
little doubt that there would be purges against "non-patriots" and other such
Stalinist repression should there ever be problems *within* the borders ...

[msongs]

2. at least that would get that mob OUT of Iraq :-) nt

[iconoclastic cat]

3. Oh, this will turn out wonderfully. .....nt

[Freedom_from_Chains]

4. Well, since they are the result of a democratically elected

government it looks like the U.S. will have to support them. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[sabra]

5. remember we are safer with out Saddam

:sarcasm:

[Az_lefty]

6. li'l chimpy's a uniter, all right...

whonder what the decider's gonna do bout this?
:puke:

[Teaser]

7. Sadr talks a lot

but it works for him. There is a significant probability he's just talking smack. But he's talking the rhetoric the street wants to hear.

[MrPrax]

8. Did Paul Martin write it?

I can't tell...because it's subscribed and usually LBN forbids links to the Moonie run paper anyway...this is pure invention and probably DIDN'T even occur...

Hezbollah story likely 'invented'

The furor over the importance that a media article that allegedly contained "invented" remarks from a Hezbollah leader, and the role it played in Canada's decision to ban the Lebanese group, continued to grow on Thursday.

On Wednesday Canada outlawed both the military and social wings of Hezbollah. As the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports, "it was an abrupt about-face for the foreign affairs minister, Bill Graham, who has argued the social arm of the organization is a legitimate charity."
...
Only one problem. It now seems the Sheik never made the remarks. On its Wednesday night (Dec. 11) national TV news broadcast, the CBC alleged "pro-Israeli" freelance reporter Paul Martin "likely invented the remarks."

There is no record of such a speech here, and there would be. It was not broadcast on Hezbollah's television station, as was reported. Hezbollah, which vigorously publicizes Nasrallah's every word, says the remarks were never uttered and the Canadian embassy in Beirut has tried and failed to document the quotes. The story originated not in the Middle East but in London, with this man. Paul Martin freelances for " The Washington Times," a right wing newspaper owned by the Unification Church. He cannot back up the quotes his story attributes to Nasrallah.

And the CBC says it's not the first time something like this has happened with Martin.

Earlier this year, the paper ( the Times) ran a report by a reporter named Sayed Anwar accusing Palestinian Muslims of raping, executing and extorting Christians in Bethlehem. When the story was questioned, Sayed Anwar turned out to be a fictitious name. A composite for Paul Martin and two of his researchers. Martin refused to discuss that incident on camera.

CS Monitor

Note: the reporters name was Sayed Anwar -- but for this story at this time...the Times decided to run with the reporter's pseudonym which also was incidentally the name of the Canadian Prime Minister...so who was the Times trying to confuse...did they think using a 'Christian sounding name' would 'catapult the propaganda' more effectively.

[RedEarth]

16. My thoughts as well...I don't put much credence in Wash Times

[Marie26]

29. Wow

Good find, thanks.

[yellowcanine]

10. Lovely. What was that again about Iraq being the place where we could

get all the terra-ists together in one place and defeat them? How is that working out?

[Pachamama]

11. Why do I have this strange feeling that this was part of the "plan"?

Because, isn't it convenient for Bush to be able to "enter the War" with Israel now because the Iraqi War on Terror is spilling over?

:eyes:

[Marie26]

13. IMO, it's part of Iran's plan. nt

[Pachamama]

19. Or - we are both right - Iran and BushCo. are determined to have their War

:eyes:

[Marie26]

22. Yep.

You've got it. :scared: This whole thing is starting to look like a proxy US-Iran battle.

[Marie26]

12. Great

Now they can export their own civil war to Lebanon.

[Roland99]

14. Worst mistake Sadr could make. Israel and the US are trying to draw them

into this to give them an excuse to go Shock and Awe on the entire Middle East.

[gully]

15. So that spreading democracy stuff didn't work out huh?

Whoda thunk?

[warrens]

17. Oh goody

Just what we need, having this leak across borders. Chaos, anyone?

[mike923]

20. So our enemy is attempting to fight on multiple fronts?

I like our chances.

[VegasWolf]

21. Our chances? As in the last 4 years Bush has mismanaged the entire

middle east situation?

[mike923]

23. It wasn't exactly a bed of roses prior to Bush taking over...

i'm not sticking up for Bush, but rather our troops. I'll take them in any fight, especially if the enemy is trying to fight multiple enemies.

Isreal has their war to fight, and we have ours. If the guys we are fighting, leave to go fight Isreal, well, i like our chances.

[saigon68]

27. wasn't exactly a bed of roses Maybe a ROSE PETAL PARADE

Rose Petal parade

[bemildred]

24. I'm sure these dipshits will be a big help. nt

[MisterP]

25. there are also Shi'ites (with Iranian connections) in the central

highlands of Afghanistan--the Hazara. Bush might get his dream of the lands burning from the Levant to the Indus if he keeps this up.

[leveymg]

26. Is Bush Missing an Opportunity Here? Have Israel Invade Iraq

They've always claimed to be a go anywhere, do anything kind of outfit. Let them earn their $3 billion/year military subsidy from the U.S.

Send the IDF into Central and Southern Iran, so they can show what they're really made of.

Go, Coalition of the Billing!

[Phrogman]

30. Why, that one hell of a good idea, as the Israelis stand up, Americans ..

can come home"