New 'Hadi Army' may join insurrection (Samarra youths to join Mahdi army)

(Al-Mashriq) Clerics and preachers in Samarra have asked young believers to join the so-called Hadi Army in reference to Imam Ali al-Hadi, who is buried in Samarra. Sources affirmed the army would consist of armed elements that would be attached to the Mahdi army in Najaf. The insistence of the government to solve the crisis militarily has urged many Iraqis to join the resistance, and it has unified the different bodies of resistance. Member of the political office of the Islamic Party Ammar Wajeeh said the party rejected the government's attempt to solve the issue with Muqtada al-Sadr militarily. They think there were wider scopes for negotiations.
(Al-Mashriq is published daily by Al-Mashriq Institution for Media and Cultural Investments.)

http://www.iwpr.net/archive/ipm/ipm_137.html

be for the coalition. If he comes out of the most recent fracas relatively unscathed... watch out, Sistani, Alawi, US.

By the way, they said on CBS radio news that Sadr's militia broke the peace. I had been under the impression that some Marines had opened fire on militia members. Can anyone clarify? Who started it?

He is already "out of the most recent fracas relatively unscathed",
although a good deal of news-blather is being generated to obscure
that fact. There is no deal as yet, all al Sadr has agreed to is not
to fight it they don't fight. Since they started the fight, that
is no concession at all. They are trying to pretend that he caved
in, but nobody in country is going to buy that shit.

Who'd a thunk it.

WHen will soldiers realize that they have more in common with the enemy combatants than they do with those who sent them to kill the enemy?