Wednesday, March 26, 2008
al-Sadr said what?
This is for those who missed the wall to wall headlines in our media...
Dan Senor and Roman Martinez report in the Wall Street Journal:
"'I have failed to liberate Iraq, and transform its society into an Islamic society.'
-- Moqtada al-Sadr, Asharq Al Awsat newspaper, March 8, 2008
Moqtada al-Sadr -- the radical cleric dubbed 'The Most Dangerous Man in Iraq' by a Newsweek cover story in December 2006 -- has just unilaterally extended the ceasefire he imposed on his Mahdi Army militia last summer. And on the eve of the Iraq War's fifth anniversary, Sadr also issued a somber but dramatic statement. He not only declared that he had failed to transform Iraq, but also lamented the new debates and divisions within his own movement. Explaining his marginalization, Sadr all but confessed his growing isolation: 'One hand cannot clap alone.'"
