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From the Asian Times:
Muqtada's star on the rise again
By Abeer Mohammed
BAGHDAD - The movement led by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is poised to make a dramatic return to the forefront of Iraq's Shi'ite politics, combining its success in recent elections with the anticipated elevation of its leader's religious status.
The Sadrists are the main faction in the Iraqi National Alliance, which is projected to have won 68 seats in the new parliament. The bloc was the main challenger for the Shi'ite vote against Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who has been regarded with suspicion by the Sadrists since the Iraqi military led a crackdown on their militia in 2008.
Full results from the elections were due late Friday. After 95% of votes were counted ex-premier Iyad Allawi's Iraqiya bloc and Maliki's State of Law Alliance were on course to win 91 seats each, with protracted coalition building the likely outcome.
Alongside growing leverage over their political rivals, the Sadrists are expected to enjoy greater spiritual authority among their supporters as Muqtada continues his studies to become an eminent Shi'ite scholar, or ayatollah.
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When Liberals said that it would take a generation to clean up the serial catastrophes and pay down the political, economic, environmental, cultural and karmic debts incurred by 30 years of crackpot Conservative policies that reached their apotheosis under the Bush Administration, we weren't being hyperbolic.
We were being optimistic.
2 comments:
You know, Gilliard (PBUH) said, repeatedly, this was going to happen.
dollars to donuts, about the time sadr gets confirmed as ayatollah, sistani will have kicked the bucket. making sadr the heir apparent religious leader of iraq.
THEN WHAT?
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