Muqtada al-Sadr:
Where History Meets Destiny

It is sometimes said that there is a time for every great leader to meet history and destiny.

This is Muqtada al-Sadr's time of destiny.

Revered by the Shias in Iraq as both as a spiritual and a military leader and being prepared in Iran for spiritual ascendency, over last weekend, al-Sadr reportedly visited the leadership of border forces in the area of Hira, South of Najaf.

''He met its Leader to discuss the latest developments and Border Protection he checked the progress of operations of Border Protection.”

Far from fleeing to Beirut, al-Sadr was reportedly providing spiritual inspiration and blessings to Shia Commanders at various locations and is coordinating with other spiritual and military commanders in the overall region to effectively rout the ISIL (Islamic State/Caliphate in Iraq and the Levant) forces and bring to justice those Sunni butchers responsible for despicable War Crimes against prisoners of war and defenceless civilians.

Let us just hope (and if you are religious, pray) that he succeeds in those endeavors and that when they are triumphant, that he and the Shia leadership offer those captured Sunni extremists the benefit and mercy of a civilised trial without torture – something which these evil people failed to show to their captured Shia PoWs and helpless civilian victims.

I would also expect that, as a future leader of Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr will equally bring to justice all Shias involved in the summary execution of Sunni prisoners and of innocent Sunni and any other civilian victims.

Patrick Emek

http://www.abna.ir/english/service/middle-east-west-asia/archive/2014/06/16/616416/story.html

Reference from my earlier blog The Ukraine: ' The Slide Towards Civil War-Who Is Really To Blame?': 

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/al-sadr.htm