Arabnews: Sadr: “Why not just kill him?” Fox News asks.
“Why not just kill him?” Fox News asks.
Why not, indeed?
Killing Sadr? Easy enough for the greatest military power on earth, even with the slight hindrance of having to use the interim Iraqi government as a human shield if forces must enter the sacred shrine in Najaf.
US forces in Najaf possess total air control, powerful armed tanks, night vision goggles and laser sights, and scores of skilled snipers armed with piercingly accurate rifles. What does the Mahdi Army have? AK-47s, a few mortars, homemade bombs, prayer beads...political and religious opinions...and, most recently, 2,000 unarmed Sadr supporters. Killing them would inspire condemnation throughout the Muslim world. But according to Fox logic, they might just have to go if they are in the way.
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