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To: GST who wrote (128668)	4/7/2004 7:28:13 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (2) of 281500

The Shi'ite voice that will be heard By Nir Rosen, Asia Times atimes.com BAGHDAD - It may have been inevitable, but the Shi'ite uprising in Iraq that began on Sunday was no surprise to those listening to Iraq's Shi'ite population and was provoked by American actions so irresponsible they almost seem deliberate. The followers of the Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, known as the second martyr after he was murdered by Saddam Hussein agents in 1999, led by his son Muqtada al-sadr, as well as former students of Iraq's most revered ayatollah, have warned of the impending "revolution" for many months... Haeri urged Iraqis to demand elections "instead of letting the Americans toy with your lovely country. Today there is no tyrant greater than America." Haeri condemned the "slavery" Iraqis were living under and predicted that "the day will come when we will expel the occupation forces the same way we expel dogs and pigs". He added that this day was very close. In reaction to the current Shi'ite uprising, Haeri warned the Americans to cease "these reckless actions", adding that he had known from the beginning of the occupation that the Americans had not come to liberate Iraq and were "making war on the [Shi'ite] community, humiliating them, jailing their clerics and followers, killing their children ... in the name of freedom and democracy"...

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