Friday, May 07, 2004

More rewards for coalition soldiers offered

One of Mr Sadr's senior aides in the Shia city of Basra called for an uprising against British troops, and told followers that anyone capturing a female British soldier would be allowed to keep her as a slave.

Sheik Abdul-Sattar al-Bahadli offered rewards of $350 to anyone who captures a British soldier, and $150 to anyone who kills one. The offer came after a tape emerged on which Osama bin Laden apparently offered large quantities of gold as a reward for killing citizens of any of the countries providing occupation forces in Iraq.

...By taking on Mr Sadr and his militia in the holy cities, as the Americans appear to be doing after Thursday's offensive, they risk giving him a popular appeal he does not have at the moment

Extraordinary scenes as Iraqi Shia were invited to pray in Sunni mosques yesterday were evidence of how deeply the Americans have misunderstood Iraqi society. Only months ago, the US was issuing dire warnings of civil war between Iraq's Sunni and Shia. Instead, the two communities have united against the occupiers.
  Independent article

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