May 7, 2004

Muqtada al-Sadr aide allows slavery

From Charles at Little Green Footballs comes this story. (from Yahoo/AP): bq. A senior aide of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr told worshippers during a Friday sermon in southern Iraq that anyone capturing a female British soldier can keep her as a slave. bq. The aide, Sheik Abdul-Sattar al-Bahadli, also called on supporters to launch jihad, or holy war, against British troops in this southern city. Nice people... Posted by DaveH at May 7, 2004 1:40 PM