{"id":2534,"date":"2006-08-25T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2006-08-25T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T15:10:00","slug":"theyre-sadr-as-hell-and-theyre-not-going-to-take-it-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/08\/25\/11\/10\/theyre-sadr-as-hell-and-theyre-not-going-to-take-it-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"They’re Sadr As Hell And They’re Not Going To Take It Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sadr “clearly is the most potent political figure, and the most popular one … Unless directly provoked, Sadrists will lay low, because they know the Americans’ time in Iraq is coming to an end … Why would they risk another major loss of fighters if it’s not necessary? Americans in their eyes are already defeated — they’re going to leave.”<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Abu Diri, or Father of the Shield, is the nom de guerre of a Shiite Muslim man. Sunni Arabs of Baghdad also know him as “the Butcher” … Abu Diri and his followers dump their victims in the streets bearing bullet wounds and sometimes the smaller holes made by electric drills … At least until July, Abu Diri and the dozens of men believed to be under him operated out of Sadr City and Shula, two Baghdad neighborhoods … heavily loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr … Abu Diri’s victims typically were found blindfolded, with hands bound, in the streets lining Sadr City … “He’s the enforcer … He goes after specific targets” of Sadr and the Mahdi Army”.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thousands of bodies turned up on the [Sadr] streets … the victims had been brought from all over Baghdad … Victims typically had their shoes removed and their hands bound … and were executed in public … the women they found dead, like the men found with their genitals mutilated, were judged guilty of extramarital sex … a female worker [worked] at a Sadr City clinic that Mahdi Army members believed was a brothel. The militiamen warned the women there to shut the place down, pistol-whipped them in public and then shot the worker dead on the street.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sadr “clearly is the most potent political figure, and the most popular one … Unless directly provoked, Sadrists will lay low, because they know the Americans’ time in Iraq is coming to an end...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t