First off this time we need to rout the Maddi Army for good, leave it in shambles. Second someone please tell me why this guy hasn’t been taken out. I am sure the Marines and Soldiers will be happy to oblidge. The man is nothing more than a two bit gangster.

By SAAD ABDUL KADIR



(AP) Supporters of a radical anti-US cleric Muqtada al-Sadr arrive to the holy city of Kufa, Iraq, 160…

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BAGHDAD (AP) - The renegade cleric Muqtada al-Sadr urged the Iraqi army and police to stop cooperating with the United States and told his guerrilla fighters to concentrate on pushing American forces out of the country, according to a statement issued Sunday.

The statement, stamped with al-Sadr’s official seal, was distributed in the Shiite holy city of Najaf on Sunday - a day before a large demonstration there, called for by al-Sadr, to mark the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad.

“You, the Iraqi army and police forces, don’t walk alongside the occupiers, because they are your archenemy,” the statement said. Its authenticity could not be verified.

In the statement, al-Sadr - who commands an enormous following among Iraq’s majority Shiites and has close allies in the Shiite-dominated government - also encouraged his followers to attack only American forces, not fellow Iraqis.

“God has ordered you to be patient in front of your enemy, and unify your efforts against them - not against the sons of Iraq,” the statement said, in an apparent reference to clashes between al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army fighters and Iraqi troops in Diwaniyah, south of Baghdad. “You have to protect and build Iraq.”