Friday, January 19, 2007
What do Dick Cheney and Moqtada al-Sadr's family have in common?
They both hang in an undisclosed secure location.
Al Sadr said that 400 of his men had been arrested and that he is also being targeted, prompting him to move his family to a secure location, the Italian daily La Repubblica reported.
Let's hope that this is more evidence that the radical Shiites are genuinely concerned for life and limb.
The same article has this tidbit, which struck me as both paranoid and fascinating:
Al Sadr said that "there are at least four armies" ready to strike against his Mehdi militia: a secret army he said was trained in Jordan by the US military, a private army he said is at the disposal of former Prime Minister Eyad Allawi, Kurdish militias known as peshmergas and US troops.
I have heard that we were doing some training in Jordan, but I suspect it falls quite short of a "secret army." But it would certainly be cool if we had one.
5 Comments:
By 
D.E. Cloutier, at
Fri Jan 19, 06:03:00 PM:
Al Sadr forgot to mention T.E. Lawrence's army of ghosts.
By skipsailing, at
Fri Jan 19, 06:07:00 PM:
My guess is, as I noted elsewhere, Mookie man is hanging with Hassan. they chillaxin and 'splaining the whole black turban.
By 
, at
Fri Jan 19, 06:40:00 PM:
There is nothing secret about training in Jordan, Jordanian Special Forces is training Iraqi Special Forces in Jordan. It is public information.
By Assistant Village Idiot, at
Fri Jan 19, 07:23:00 PM:
I hope Al Sadr believes it, anyway, and spreads the word.
By Ken McCracken, at
Fri Jan 19, 11:27:00 PM:
A 'secret army' sounds just as improbable as the 'secret wars' that the left claims actually exist.
About as improbable as a 'secret mushroom cloud'.
