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Muqtada al-Sadr


The new Ayatollah of Iraq?
Muqtada has been the target of United States and British forces in the past.
Some fiery battles have been fought with his Mahdi Army and he now has political aspirations.
This man along with Ahmadinejad of Iran are of a new generation of young scholars who believe in the Islamic messiah, the 12th Imam. Although both are Shiites, they are of differing factions and it is doubtful he is recieving much assistance from Iran.
An Iraqi breakup , an inevitablity if the United States and British Forces left Iraq, which eventually they will do, (occupation not being a welcomed policy in todays world) upon leaving will be tossing a newborn to the wolves.
Turkey itself has massed troops on the northern border.
Iran has a small Kurdish minority in the north which leans longingly toward the Iraqi Kurdish Government. Kurdish Iraq is the enemy of Turkey and Iran, their hatred for their own Kurdish minorities occupied since the Allies carved up the world according to their own perception of boundry at the time.
A strong Al Sadr with his Mahdi Militia ready to move will enter as many cities as it can in the south, while Iran with its rival branch of the Shia Cult,( apocalyptic in worldview) is certain to attempt to seize control in the east already infiltrated in the confusion at the borders during the war. Iran is supplying the Irano-Iraqi shiites with weapons and military " advisors" and may find itself clashing with the Mahdi Militia.
Al Sadr himself is not an Imam, but is descended from the prophet Mohammed, his Father was killed by Saddam, and Sadr loyals were Saddams executioners.
This fact on the surface seems insignificant.
The reality is, Al Sadr is the power in the Iraqi Shia political circle , having hung Saddam, he has created a Sunni Vacuum, soon to bring in the new Saddam.
Al Sadr in the South, A new Saddam in the west, and an already declared Kurdish President
Masoud Barzani in the north. Al Sadr the new Ayatollah of Iraq.