Cleric's threat to female troops slavery

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Cleric's threat to female troops slavery
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Fri, 05-07-2004 - 12:33pm
Can anyone prove the veracity of these pictures of 3 Iraqi females being raped? There have been allegations that some British pictures of tortured terrorists were staged. With all the porn sites out there (and the Muslims aversion to that kind of garbage from the *decadent* west) I wouldn't put it past them to energize their base by using pictures from such sites.

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Cleric's threat to female troops

May 7 2004

Iraqi worshippers have been told that anyone who captures a female British soldier can keep her as a slave.

A senior aide of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr also called on supporters to launch holy war against British troops in Basra.

Sheik Abdul-Sattar al-Bahadli held in his hand what he said were documents and photographs of three Iraqi women being raped at British-run prisons in Iraq.

Al-Bahadli said 250,000 dinars (£195) will be given to anyone who captures a British soldier and 100,000 dinars (£83) for the killing of one.

He also offered cash for anyone who captures or kills a member of the Governing Council, a widely unpopular interim administration appointed by the US led occupation 10 months ago.

He also called on government departments in Basra to display pictures of al-Sadr in their offices.

Al-Bahadli, al-Sadr's chief representative in southern Iraq, was speaking at al-Hawi mosque in central Basra.

This is the first time that any anti-occupation activist of note offers financial reward for the killing or capturing of coalition troops.

It is likely to be viewed by occupation authorities with concern at a time of rising anti-occupation sentiment and continuing fighting between al-Sadr's al-Mahdi Army militia and US forces in the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala.

Al-Bahadli kept an assault rifle next to him as he spoke to an estimated 3,000 worshippers, occasionally lifting it as he screamed "jihad," and "Allahu Akbar," or "God is greatest."

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Registered: 09-05-2003
Fri, 05-07-2004 - 2:14pm

I don't believe this radical cleric for one minute, it is certainly possible that their have been rapes in these British run prison camps, but I would not and will not believe that he has any evidence of this that is on the up and up.


This is nothing more than him capitilizing on the situation that has arisen from our torturing Iraqi prisoners.