Will Sadr be Assassinated?

Will the US assassinate al-Sadr? They’ve announced an arrest warrant for him, and called him a “terrorist.”

The White House accused Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr of being an ally of “terrorist organizations” on Monday and said the religious leader whose supporters fueled a violent weekend uprising was seeking to undermine the June 30 transfer of sovereignty.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan sought to cast the uprising among Sadr’s followers as an isolated development rather than a Shi’ite rebellion with sweeping public support.

“What you’re talking about is one individual who is seeking to derail democracy and freedom for the Iraqi people. This is one individual who is seeking to undermine the transition process to sovereignty,” McClellan told reporters aboard Air Force One as President Bush traveled to North Carolina.

“This is an individual, I would remind you, that has pledged solidarity with terrorist organizations, Hamas and Hezbollah.”

Bush, speaking at a political stop in Charlotte, said that despite “tough action” in Iraq the United States’ “will stay the course.”

“A free Iraq will make the world more peaceful, a free Iraq will make America more secure. We will not be shaken by thugs and terrorists,” he said.

In case anyone needed any proof that the White House is clueless as usual, and has no idea what is happening in Iraq.

Neocon warbots on the internet caught the logic of the arrest warrant immediately:

He should quit before he ends up like Ahmed Yassin.

The warrant should come AFTER our troops riddled him with bullets!!

True. Hopefully his followers will put up armed resistance. If he goes to jail alive, his followers will endlessly demonstrate to demand his release. In this case a dead martyr is better than a live radical cleric.

It is past time that Gods will is exercised and the mosque that this shitbird is hiding in explodes with him in it, inshallah of course.

I hope that jolly ole Sadr will end up a martyr soon. I think a MOAB would be my weapon of choice to deliver to his mosque and his neighborhood. A little shock and awe would be refreshing right about now.

The dangers that he presented were well known:
The Sadrist movement

Shows a lot about Sadr, the whole mess would be prevented if he were assassinated in time.
G-d forbid we assassinate “holy men”!
This is Ahmed Yassin all over again,
no actually this is not even a pathetic copy.

“In the particular incident with Sadr, this is one person who has decided rather than allow democracy to flourish, he is going to exercise force and we just can’t let it stand,” Bush said.

Bush noted that an Iraqi judge has issued an arrest warrant for al-Sadr. Al- Sadr has been charged with murder.

Setting Al-Sadr up for a hit? Time will tell.