Moqtad al-Sadr took another look at his hole cards and called “check“:
Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr has ordered the renewal of the ceasefire his powerful militia has been observing for the past six months.
He announced in August that his Mehdi Army would not attack rival armed groups or American forces in Iraq.
This was widely credited with reducing sectarian tensions and contributing to the recent overall drop in violence.
BBC Baghdad correspondent Jim Muir says the government and US military will clearly be relieved by the move.
Clearly he wants to be a player. Which is hard to do from the wrong side of a burial shroud.
Ya know, those Iraqi fella’s aren’t as politically dumb as our politicians tell us they are.
Maybe it is because our politicians say dumb things when the subject turns to talking about Iraq?
He’s learned the true meaning of the phrase, “Discretion is the better part of valor”.
It might have a little something to do with that Predator circling his house 24-7
Perhaps he suspects there are not really 72 virgins waiting upstairs? “Martyrdom for thee but not for me” is the constant creed of these heathens.