Raid fails to seize al-Sadr (ING and police raid Sadr's home)

[Barrett808]

NAJAF, Iraq — Iraqi security forces staged an unsuccessful raid yesterday to seize rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, the anti-American Shiite Muslim leader whose militia has been fighting coalition troops since Thursday.

In their first such move against him, members of the Iraqi National Guard and police went to arrest al-Sadr at his home in Najaf near the sacred Imam Ali shrine, the base from which he had urged followers to rise up and eject U.S. forces.

"We surrounded the house, but he was not at home," said Gen. Ghalib Hadi Jazaery, Najaf's chief of police, who said his officers were enforcing a warrant issued last year against al-Sadr in the murder of a rival cleric.

"We want to clean up this city from this devil," Jazaery said.

There was confusion over who ordered the arrest attempt. U.S. officials said they were not involved in the raid.

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001999686_iraqdig08.html

[Mika]

1. A lit match next to gasoline

:nuke:

[acmavm]

2. Talk about your really stupid moves. If it had worked, mass chaos. Now

that it failed, mass chaos.

The inmates are truly running the asylum. Making a move like this against al Sadr just makes him more of a hero to the Iraqi people.

Oh well, glad that the said the US was not involved with the raid. I doubt that that will make any difference to the Iraqi insurgency though. The puppet government just carried out orders in the eyes of the Iraqi people. And you know, I think they're right.

[Mika]

3. Huh?

"Oh well, glad that the said the US was not involved with the raid."

If the WH/Pentagon says it, it must be true. :crazy:

[acmavm]

4. That was meant to be a sarcastic comment. Should have made that

more obvious I suppose. I just thought it was understandable from the rest of my comments.

[Mika]

5. Cool

:hi: