Is Muqtada Al Sadr becoming the "Nasrallah of Iraq"?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061031/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq



Besides al-Sadr, the largest Shiite coalition in the 275-member parliament, the United Iraqi Alliance, had also condemned the checkpoints for inflicting what it described as "collective punishment" against residents of Baghdad's Shiite neighborhoods.

*"Kidnapping a man can't be a pretext for laying siege to these neighborhoods," Sheik Jalal Eddin al-Sagheer, a prominent Shiite lawmaker, said at a news conference.

Al-Maliki's threatened to further roil relations with the U.S. that hit a rough patch last week after Al-Maliki issued a string of bitter complaints — at one point saying he was not "America's man in Iraq."

Al-Maliki had apparently been angered by a statement from U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad that the prime minister had agreed to set a timeline for progress on reaching security and political goals — something al-Maliki denied. He also angrily rebuked the U.S. for a raid on Sadr city targeting an alleged death squad leader in which 10 people were killed.

*As it was a justification for Israeli war crimes against the Lebanese people. A person MUST read between the lines. Political and war captives cannot be the basis for wars when in fact, the US and Israel are engaged in a war against Muslims and their way of life, liberty and the persuit of Islamic States instead of US engineered democrazies. Particularly in light of Gitmo and Abu Gharaib. If that is indeed the case for "collective punishment" then boy, does the US have it coming to them.