They just got a different tool to use than we do: They kill innocent lives to achieve objectives. That's what they do. And they're good. They get on the TV screens and they get people to ask questions about, well, you know, this, that or the other. I mean, they're able to kind of say to people: Don't come and bother us, because we will kill you. Bush - Joint News Conference with Blair - 28 July '06

Thursday, January 12, 2006

Muqtada al-Sadr meets King Abdullah


In this photo released by the Saudi Press Agency on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2006,
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, left, receives radical Iraqi leader Muqtada al-Sadr,
far right, at a reception held for Muslim dignitaries for the annual hajj pilgrimage,
at the Royal Palace in Mina, Saudi Arabia. Iraqi officials said al-Sadr, a Shiite
Muslim who arrived in staunchly Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia a few days ago to
perform the hajj, met the monarch privately Tuesday, adding the pair discussed the
situation in Iraq and ongoing efforts to achieve national reconciliation in that
war-ravaged country. (AP Photo/Saudi Press Agency)

db: There is just no stopping Muqtada al-Sadr.

posted by exoplanet at 12:12 AM