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Published on August 13, 2004 By Stroughzer In Current Events
It looks like the troops hit him. I'm having trouble linking stuff in the body. I'm kind of a newb at this so here is an excerpt from an MSNBC article.



"NAJAF, Iraq - Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has been wounded during fighting between his followers and U.S. and Iraqi forces in the holy city of Najaf, Arab satellite television networks said Friday, quoting his aides.

Al-Sadr is said to be holed up in Najaf’s sacred compound housing the Imam Ali shrine, surrounded by his followers. He has led an uprising against coalition troops for more than a week in the city, vowing to fight “until the last drop of my blood has been spilled.”

Aide Ahmed al-Shaibany said al-Sadr was wounded in three places during the clashes, Al-Jazeera reported, but didn’t say what happened or if the wounds were serious.

Another aide, Abdel Hadi al-Daraji, told al-Arabiya television that al-Sadr was hurt during shelling."

It's good that they've finally got the guy. Let's see if he surrenders, or does indeed fight to the last drop of blood.

Comments
on Aug 13, 2004
Thanks for sharing this. I'll head on over to msnbc.com and check it out.
on Aug 13, 2004
It's also nice to know that one of the major news agencies bothers updating its web-site when things happen oversease... often CNN sits on this until they arrive at the office in the morning.

Holy cow, CNN updated! Crazy. Link
Also, here's Al-Jazeera's take: Link Sorry, but they hadn't updated the English language version yet...
on Aug 13, 2004
I didn't know CNN didn't update - I'm an msnbc kinda girl anyways
on Aug 13, 2004
MSNBC was just the first site I clicked on Fox News has it up too.
on Aug 13, 2004
. . . and might I say that Al-Sadr gets the award for "Muslim Cleric with the Worst Teeth" . . . eww . . . maybe we should bomb him with some flouride or something? Capture him and forcibly floss his teeth?
on Aug 13, 2004

"Muslim Cleric with the Worst Teeth"


too funny tw!  im soooo tempted, but im not gonna jump for the cheap shot about the sizeable mullah population in london. 


abc's los angeles affiliate just ran its 11pm teaser with no mention of this...but the nbc affiliate just started and is reporting it.  it may be better for everyone that hes still alive although i wouldnt begrudge him the chance to discover for himself how much mosque desecration pleases allah.

on Aug 13, 2004
Read on one of the televised cable news networks (can't recall which) this morning (local) that Sadr's aides are claiming he was wounded with shrapnel, but that the one of the Iraqi Ministries (defense? interior?) is claiming that he's not injured.
on Aug 13, 2004
Well I for one am going to cry huge tears on my pillow at night. Wouldn't it be a shame if he got a horrible, lingering, flesh eating infection,
that killed him slowly over the next day or two while his army abandoned him? Awwww.
on Aug 13, 2004
I'll bet I know what's wrong with him . . . it's gingivitis!