Misleading headline: 250 Insurgents Killed in Battle
Misleading headline: 250 Insurgents Killed in Battle
The details say:
Provincial Gov. Assad Sultan Abu Kilel said the assault was launched because the insurgents planned to attack Shiite pilgrims and clerics during ceremonies marking Ashoura
The reality is:
They are a group called “Heaven Soldiers�, a Shiite sect. inside the main sect.
I hope you people heard about “Al-Mahdi“, a person called “Ahmed Al-Hasanâ€? who claimed that he is the guardian of Imam Mahdiâ€?, met him several times and “Imam Mahdi” asked him to be his successor, crazy or not but his followers and believers are increasing.
For sure this is not good news for the Shiite religious authority in Najaf [competition???, specially in the Shiite Ashura ceremony, which means that the sky will rain money], so they informed the “Green Zone” the necessity to arrest at the head of this group and his followers, but it seems the group was well prepared for this attack.
P.S.
The group is [anti-Iran] though
but I found his list of high prices (at which he’s outraged) interesting. It looks to me as though the price of gasoline is still being subsidized. There were a number of interesting (if disturbing) things posted at Roads to Iraq this week but I found this comment about the military engagement in Najaf yesterday the most interesting: apparently, the Shi’ite sect that was engaged was anti-Iran. Then Some! has a rather interesting commentary on the engagement:
[...] Roads to Iraq [...]
This so called Shi’a mehdi is non-existant figure made up because of a missing son and he been hiding in a cave for 1400 hundred years…
http://www.ansar.org/english/myth.html
About al Mehdi myth and underlying reasons^
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=12243320&blogID=213325007
How Shi’a sub-cults invented a “oh he’ll come back soon” theory everytime one of their leaders disappears…^
Ghazi
The above link is great reading, I don’t know some of the details.