Heard this on the CBC

[TrogL]

Apparently there's a new grass-roots leader in Iraq. He's got an Ayatollah so he's got the real Ahyatollah's all in an uproar, but he's got huge popular support and people are rallying.

They had a sound byte from the inside of a mosque and it sounded like 10000 people chanting.

Anybody know :wtf: that's all about?

[Maple]

1. This guy?

"Some of the mourners blamed the attack on supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr, a young cleric winning support for his strong criticism of the US presence."

[Wonk]

2. If that was on The National here's a RealPlayer link to it

http://media.cbc.ca:8080/ramgen/cbc.ca/national/real/thenational.rm

I just scanned through it and there's some coverage of the current situation in Iraq starting about 24 minutes in. Watching it now.

on edit: I didn't hear the story to which you refer, but they did blast * and Blair pretty hard.

[dudeness]

3. oh no..a fundamentalist leader..

bush to bremmer.."hell man , can we get saddam back.?"