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April 09, 2006
Moqtada Gets Image Help From Newsweek
Most days of the week, Moqtada al Sadr, the son of slain shi'ite cleric Al-Sayyid Mohammed Mohammed Sadeq Al-Sadr, has an image problem that he does not look scary enough, or old enough, to be respectable in the Shi'ite religious hierarchy. Compare him to what seems to be a picture of his father in the background:
He is, in fact, rumored to be in his twenties, not in his thirties as he claims. Too young, too chubby cheeked with not a whiff of gray hair in sight. But, no panic Moqtada! Newsweek is here to help!
There, Moqtada as Darth Vader. Both sides should be happy.
Posted by zeynep at April 9, 2006 02:13 PM
Comments
Curious , that the (newsweek) article paints Sadr all the way around -- first saying "the Sunns dont want a PM beholden to the man (Sadr) they believe is responsable for sectarian hit squads" -- and then later in the article saying Sadr has good relations with the Sunni (established back in the fallujah days).
The thing is, is that Sadr and Jaafari both are anti-occupation and anti- privitization, and no wonder a nightmare for US interests. Along with being the better hope for mutual Shia/Sunni reconciliation, the Jaffari/Sadr have plans to run the country without the americans -- asking them to leave if Jaafari holds as PM. The notion that Iraqis could run the country without the US must give the administration sleepless nights, especially before the long awaited Production Sharing Agreements have been negotiated into the equation. Conversly, the SCIRI entries into the PM fracus are of course more pro-american and pro-privitization, and in no hurry to see the US go -- So, the confusion is maintained, at least in the Mainstreammedia.
Posted by: anna missed at April 10, 2006 01:52 AM