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:
I hope you people heard about “Al-Mahdi
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
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.