Sistani is al-Sadr's next door neighbor!!!

[tedzbear]

This paragraph about Mr. Sadr is from a story in The Guardian Unlimited:

"The Shia cleric's crowded three-storey office is directly opposite Najaf's Imam Ali mosque, one of the most famous shrines in the Muslim world. It is the proximity of the building that has probably spared Mr Sadr from being hit by an American missile - and the fact that Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most respected Shia figure, lives next door."


No wonder the Coalition is holding back. Big Daddy is protecting his wayward son!

:wtf:


http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1204966,00.html

[oblivious]

1. He ranks even higher than Iran's Ayatollas

Did I read that on DU recently?

[shadu]

2. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani is a good man

We will be most fortunate if he is elected president.
We have made Al Sadr a hero. He is both brave and a patriot, any way you cut it. But he is no politician. The US massacred innocents
today; we are all Arabs now.

[Dunedain]

3. The Mosque

houses the tomb of a Son in law of Muhammad. A leader of the Shia people. It is my understanding that Sistani has marginalized Sadr, because Sadr's views and tactics do not serve the interest's of Sistani's people on the whole. It is also my understanding that if an American solder even set foot in that mosque it would be an insult, I can't imagine what the reaction would be if we attacked it.