The terrorist bit the dust, so crying and screaming will not bring him back to life. Other sellouts and terrorists should learn from his lesson.
Does anyone remember Iraqi cleric Muqtada al Sadr??
Aka the Shia version of Khalifa al Baghdadi???
Iraq is officially ruled by Shite versions of ISIS and AL-Quaida
Shia Militias[edit]
The Shia militias have presented
Nouri al-Maliki with perhaps the greatest conundrum of his administration given
the capture of
Amarah. American officials have pressed him hard to disarm the militias and rid the state security forces of their influence.
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A 2008 report by the
Combating Terrorism Center at
West Point based on reports from the interrogations of dozens of captured Shia fighters described an Iranian-run network smuggling Shia fighters into Iran where they received training and weapons before returning to Iraq.
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Badr Organization[edit]
One major Shia militia in Iraq is the
Badr Organization, the military wing of the
Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq. The group is currently based in
Karbala, Iraq, and is also active in areas throughout southern Iraq. The group was formed by the Iranian Government to fight the Saddam Hussein-controlled Iraq during the
Iraq-Iran War. Originally, the group consisted of Iraqi exiles who were banished from Iraq during the reign of Saddam Hussein. After the war ended in 1988, the organization remained in Iran until Saddam Hussein was overthrown during the
2003 invasion of Iraq. Following the invasion, the brigade then moved into Iraq, became members of the new Iraq Army, and aided coalition forces in insurgents.
In December 2005, the group and their leaders in the Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq participated in
parliament elections, under the pro-Shiite coalition known as the
United Iraqi Alliance, and managed to get 36 members into the Iraqi Parliament.
The Badr organization supports the government of Nouri Al-Maliki.
Muqtada al-Sadr[edit]
Supporters of the young Shi'a
cleric Muqtada al-Sadr are largely impoverished men from the Shi'a urban areas and slums in Baghdad and the southern Shi'a cities.
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Mahdi Army area of operation stretches from
Basra in the south to the
Sadr City section of
Baghdad in central Iraq (some scattered Shi'a militia activity has also been reported in
Baquba and
Kirkuk, where Shi'a minorities exist).[
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During his group's active militant phase, Al-Sadr enjoyed wide support from the Iraqi people according to some polls. A poll by the
Iraq Center for Research and Studies found that 32% of Iraqis "strongly supported" him and another 36% "somewhat supported" him, making him the second most popular man in Iraq, behind only Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani.[
citation needed] The Mahdi Army is believed to have around 60,000 members.
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After the December 2005 elections in Iraq, Al-Sadr's party got 32 new seats giving him substantial political power in the divided Iraqi Parliament. In January 2006, he used these seats to swing the vote for prime minister to
Ibrahim Al-Jaafari, giving Al-Sadr a legitimate stake in the new Iraqi government and allying Al-Jaafari with the cleric.
On November 27, 2006, a senior American intelligence official told reporters that the Iranian-backed group
Hezbollah had been training members of the
Mahdi Army. The official said that 1,000 to 2,000 fighters from the Mahdi Army and other Shia militias had been trained by Hezbollah in
Lebanon, and a small number of Hezbollah operatives have also visited Iraq to help with training.
Iran has facilitated the link between Hezbollah and the Shia militias in Iraq, the official said. "There seems to have been a strategic decision taken sometime over late winter or early spring by
Damascus,
Tehran, along with their partners in ait Lebanese Hezbollah, to provide more support to Sadr to increase pressure on the U.S.," the American intelligence official said.
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