Sunday, 24 April 2016

Muqtada al-Sadr: From Rabid Warlord to Iraqi Gandhi (Zach Abels, The National Interest)



Who are you and what have you done with Muqtada al-Sadr? The man impersonating Iraq’s firebrand Shia cleric gave himself away early Wednesday when he called on the United Nations and Organization for Islamic Cooperation to mediate the country’s boiling political crisis. Cue spit take. How does one go from rabid warlord to Iraqi Gandhi in the space of a decade? Muqtada’s dumbfounding metamorphosis lies somewhere between maniacal and Machiavellian.

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/muqtada-al-sadr-rabid-warlord-iraqi-gandhi-15910

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