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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (23115)	2/8/2006 4:45:47 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"His return will be preceded by cosmic chaos, war, bloodshed and pestilence" Who would have guessed it... :-(

To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (23115)	2/23/2006 12:36:42 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Moktada Al-Sader is known to have established an entire shadow government in South Central Iraq. During the early years of our invasion of Iraq, he convinced his followers that the Mahdi was preparing to reveal himself in Iraq and that the real reason we were there is because we hope to murder the Mahdi when he reveals himself. The Army Al-Sadr organized is called the Army of Mahdi (The Al-Mahdi Army). AL-SADR is a powerful Shi'ite insurgent. His style of gaining power is described as 'quiet' by Iraqis. During the early campaign in Iraq his insurgency held off the entire US and Iraqi coalition forces for weeks, in violent confrontation. They were only a few hundred men, who held up in a Mosque, as a pocket of resistance. We laid siege to the Mosque but got no where. It was a horrible embarrassment for us because they were succeeding and managing to rally other anti US forces. A Mullah from Iran (Grand Iyatollah Sistani) walked through the city in huge fanfare to meet with AL-SADR and persuade him to end the insurgency. AL-SADR had previously been able to expel Sistani from Iraq. Sistani struck a deal with AL-SADR that has remained a secret to this day that covinced AL-SADR to end the stand off. AL-SADR was the only insurgent who has ever been allowed to just walk away free in the open as were his forces. He told them to spread the word because they were not disbanded. They would reorganize and in the future they would be THE army that rules the world. Al-Sadr declared that he could not disband the army be cause it does not belong to himself but to the Mahdi. AL-SADR has been known to organize a complete Shadow government with officers, prisons, etc that were all privately funded. Now huge amounts of resources are pouring in from Iran and Al Sadr is very quite. When ever his name does appear it is along with Sistani. We know that he has a significant number of loyal supporters in official council roles. Even though we keep hearing reports that Al-Sadr has been neutralized, the presence of this shadow army and his rhetoric periodically surfaces. We know that massive amounts of weaponry is being supplied by Iran to Iraq but we don't exactly know where these supplies are going. This is not the first time in history that someone has declared the existence of the Mahdi. Watch the feature movie 'The Four Feathers'.