Top Shia cleric calls on tribes to protect shrines (al-Sistani Militia)

[leftchick]

yikes!

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=74351&version=1&template_id=37&parent_id=17

NAJAF, Iraq: Shia spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called yesterday for Iraq’s powerful tribes to be deployed to protect the country’s holy places after three attacks on Shia shrines in four days, his office said.

“Ayatollah Sistani, who received a tribal delegation from Kufa, asked that the Iraqi tribes reclaim their role of protecting the shrines,” said an official in Sistani’s office in the Shia clerical centre of Najaf.

“After the crimes against the places of worship, including the blowing up of the mausoleum in Samarra and the attacks against the tombs of Salman al-Farsi and Imam Ali bin Mussa al-Rida, the tribes must take a stand and claim a role in the protection of these sites,” Sistani was quoted as saying.

After the explosion that destroyed the golden dome of the Samarra shrine on Wednesday, sparking an outburst of sectarian violence, two mortar rounds struck near the tomb of Salman al-Farsi, just south of Baghdad, late on Friday.

[MASSAFRA]

1. Friday

I heard Rush talk about this as progress. No civil war here our buddy is going to protect the other Holy sites.

[annabanana]

2. so.. Sistani has issued a call to arms...

Any pretending that civil war is a "maybe" thing is pretty much over.

(we don't have a smilie for this one, folks)

[Kagemusha]

3. It's not everything that the words "call to arms" imply. (Close though.)

The problem is that whatever Sistani *says*, you ride the tiger, the tiger may go places you don't want without your say-so.