Thursday, June 28, 2007

Tehran's Man in Samarra

The Idiot Sadr may be disappointed that the latest attack on Shias by knocking down the minarets of the Golden Mosque in Samarra didn't spark renewed sectarian violence.

So he's trying to remedy that problem:

Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr vowed Thursday to go ahead with a planned march to a devastated shrine in central Iraq but insisted the goal is not to confront Sunnis who live along the way.

Instead, al-Sadr said the march is aimed at bringing Shiites and Sunnis closer together and breaking down the barriers imposed by the Americans and Sunni religious extremists.

The march is set for July 5 to the Askariya shrine in Samarra, which was bombed for a second time June 13. Sunni organizations and government officials have urged al-Sadr to cancel the march, fearing it will escalate sectarian violence that already has claimed thousands of lives.

On the bright side, maybe we'll get a chance to kill or arrest him.

UPDATE: Citing security concerns, Sadr cancelled the march. He just isn't as powerful as he used to be.