"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 [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!
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