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Okay, game over. We don’t need another Hezbollah, or another Quds Force running around in the region. Time to missile strike that fat with a halitosis problem and make sure we take out not only him, but his senior leadership, his weapons cahes (which, no doubt, he just procured from Iran via the Quds Force via the IRGC) and whack them so hard that Iran blinks.

A powerful show of force on this puke piglet will be the only thing to make these people understand that we aren’t around anymore, they will interpret anything other than that as weakness.

NOW! Dammit!

Or should we just try to establish diplomatic relations with the newly formed entity with no preconditions. Maybe we can talk, you know, like rational human beings?

He warned that those who disobey will be “will not be with me…We will keep resisting the occupier until the liberation or martyrdom.”

BAGHDAD — Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr revealed Friday that he plans to create a powerful new fighting force to battle what he calls “the occupiers” in Iraq.

Al-Sadr’s announcement came in the form of a statement read after Friday prayers in the holy Shiite city of Kufa. The statement called on his nearly 60,000-strong Mahdi Army militia to exercise restraint.

“The resistance will be carried out exclusively by a special group which I will announce later,” Sadr’s statement read, adding that “weapons will be in the hands of this group exclusively and will only be directed at the occupier,” using standard terms for the American forces in Iraq.

He warned that those who disobey will be “will not be with me.”

“We will keep resisting the occupier until the liberation or martyrdom,” he added.

Sadr also called on his followers to help establish social services in Iraq’s dominant Shiite community.

Sadr spokesman Salah al-Obeidi told AFP the action was aimed at building a more comprehensive movement that could better serve its followers.

“Sadr’s view is to take the Mahdi Army on the path of social and cultural activities, far from the military. He wants to reform it and limit its responsibility,” he told the French news service.

Sadr, a longtime antagonist of the U.S.-led coalition, said his new group will not direct its operations against Iraqis.

“This group will be professional and it will be the only group carrying arms which will be directed against the occupier. It will be banned from using arms against any Iraqis.”

Sadr, who is believed to be in Iran, has not been seen publicly since May 25, 2007, when he was in the Kufa mosque during Friday prayers. His aides refuse to divulge his whereabouts, triggering speculation that he is in Iran, AFP reported.

Following numerous bloody clashes with U.S. forces in which his militia reportedly suffered heavy casualties — including one in the Shiite city of Karbala during a major religious festival — al-Sadr last August suspended his militia’s activities and called for a ceasefire.

Al-Sadr maintains that his fighters have held to the ceasefire, but Mahdi forces battled U.S. and Iraqi forces last March in Baghdad and other Shiite regions resulting in heavy militia and civilian deaths.

The U.S. military long has maintained that al-Sadr’s formces are armed, trained and funded by Iran, a charge the Tehran regime denies.

(Fox)