Thursday, December 21, 2006
Al-Sadr clashes with deputies in video
Politics
One day after the Pentagon identified his Mahdi Army as eclipsing al Qaeda in Iraq as "the most dangerous accelerant" of violence in that country, IraqSlogger has obtained a video of Muqtada al Sadr in which he rambles, questions the loyalty of deputies, and appears to struggle to control his own organization. The Arabic-language video, apparently recorded in October, recently surfaced on Iraqi Web sites critical of Sadr. The seven-and-a-half minute video is streamed in its original Arabic-language. A translation of the entire video follows after background on Sadr and his Mahdi Army.
For the full transcription follow the title link.
