these are more ominous signs that thing are spiralling OUT OF CONTROL for the U.S. Occupation in Iraq...bush* war will only deteriorate more....
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-snips from today's Washington Post article-
"Those who work at the Governing Council as spies and servants of the foreigners, may the curse of God be on them," the sheik, Abdul Hadi Darraji, told hundreds of worshipers, who interrupted the angry sermon several times with chants of "Long live Sadr; Moqtada to paradise."
The sermon followed by a few hours
the grisly discovery of the body of Suwadi Shaty, chairman of a U.S.-appointed municipal advisory board. Shaty, who had been missing for 48 hours, was found at dawn Friday hanging from an electrical pole in Sadr City, U.S. officials said.
He apparently was beaten, tortured and then hanged, Kimmitt said. Shaty was found by his family with a sign hanging on his chest reading: "Mahdi Army business." In his sermon Friday in Kufa, Sadr used the U.S. agreement in Fallujah to remind his followers that the Sunni-dominated Baath Party oppressed Iraq's Shiite majority and oversaw the killing of thousands of Shiites in a U.S.-inspired uprising that followed the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
"Here are the occupiers returning the Baathists to their jobs," Sadr said. "They removed the former regime and now they return the Baathists. This proves their hatred of the Iraqis."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55329-2004Apr30_2.html
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