http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/05/29/sadr-influence/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:42:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/05/29/sadr-influence/comment-page-1/#comment-1200 Chris L Fri, 30 May 2008 21:20:14 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/05/29/sadr-influence/#comment-1200 Leaders of the Dawa Party sought exile in Iran from the 1980's up until the U.S. invasion in 2003, so there is a strong bond between Iran and the current Iraqi government. In 1983 Dawa simultaneously bombed the American and French embassies in Kuwait and several other domestic and foreign targets in Kuwait. So we are now supporting a government that we previously listed as a terrorist organization. Strange bedfellows. Leaders of the Dawa Party sought exile in Iran from the 1980’s up until the U.S. invasion in 2003, so there is a strong bond between Iran and the current Iraqi government. In 1983 Dawa simultaneously bombed the American and French embassies in Kuwait and several other domestic and foreign targets in Kuwait. So we are now supporting a government that we previously listed as a terrorist organization. Strange bedfellows.

]]> http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/05/29/sadr-influence/comment-page-1/#comment-1190 Bushie Thu, 29 May 2008 17:38:41 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/05/29/sadr-influence/#comment-1190 Thank you for the primer on the history of the Sadr movement and it’s influence on other Shia factions in Iraq. That said, why the damning by faint praise of Muqtada al-Sadr via his “relatively meager scholarly credentials”? He is what he is. Thank you for the primer on the history of the Sadr movement and it’s influence on other Shia factions in Iraq. That said, why the damning by faint praise of Muqtada al-Sadr via his “relatively meager scholarly credentials”? He is what he is.

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