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Muqtada, the Future of Iraq

By Robert S. Eshelman

“Firebrand.” It was the ubiquitous moniker used to describe Iraq’s fiercely anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr when, in March 2004, his leering portrait became commonplace among American media reports of Iraq. American Viceroy L. Paul Bremer III had just shut down al-Sadr’s Baghdad newspaper, al-Hawza, and hinted at arresting him, ushering in the first of several confrontations with al-Sadr and his… return to article

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    How very disappointing to see here of all places the use of the standard MSM characterization of Muqtada Al Sadr as “anti-American cleric”. Please!
    Whatever else he might be Al Sadr is not anti-American at all, but rather anti-foreign-occupation.

    Please stop parotting the MSM’s propaganda terminology!

    Germany Posted by umrayya on Jul 19, 2008 at 7:09 AM
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