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...throwing candy, lighting firecrackers in the street. "They got Saddam!" "The devil is gone." It was like a wedding day, or perhaps more a birthday. "We will be friends with the Americans because of this," said a delighted Syed Hassan al Naji, the Baghdad commander of gadfly cleric Moqtada Sadr's militia, the Army of Mehdi. In his white turban and long robes, Al-Naji beamed with pleasure in his neighbor's house in Sadr City as the news came out over the Arabic news channels. "This is a great...
...throwing candy, lighting firecrackers in the street. ?They got Saddam!? ?The devil is gone.? It was like a wedding day, or perhaps more a birthday. ?We will be friends with the Americans because of this,? said a delighted Syed Hassan al Naji, the Baghdad commander of gadfly cleric Moqtada Sadr?s militia, the Army of Mehdi. In his white turban and long robes, Al-Naji beamed with pleasure in his neighbor?s house in Sadr City as the news came out over the Arabic news channels. ?This is a great...
...easier to kill them." Jasim says his group has compiled a hit list of "hundreds" of individuals from documents looted from mukhabarat buildings after the regime fell and from former security officials who have fingered their colleagues. The vigilante cell was born of the teachings of Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, a popular Shi'ite cleric who, before he was executed by the regime in 1999, according to Aws and Jasim, issued a fatwa ordering that Saddam's murderous henchmen be killed. Al-Sadr's son Muqtada, an outspoken young Shi'ite cleric, has incited violence against U.S. forces in Iraq...
...plan is designed to widen participation in the political transition, in order to bolster its legitimacy among ordinary Iraqis as a counterweight to the insurgency. In the best-case scenario, it will draw into the political process the likes of Muqtada al-Sadr, the popular firebrand Shiite cleric who has agitated against the U.S. occupation. Sadr has welcomed Washington's change of direction, and moderated his tone lately - partly, perhaps, in response to fears that the U.S. may arrest him, but also perhaps because his movement, which dominates the Shiite slums of East Baghdad, has much to gain from...
...complain that Americans are hindering their work by insisting on such things as due process. "If they want to see a change, they should let us operate by the old laws of the police," says Lieut. Marwan Hussein, at the Thawra police station in the heart of Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood...