Al Sadr Mahdi Army likened to Nazis

From Knight Ridder Newspapers via Harry's Place

On the same day that last Friday's truce was announced, al-Sadr supporters stormed the Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf - one of the holiest sites in all of Shiite Islam - during Friday prayers and heckled the prayer leader, al-Sadr al din Kubanchi. They also made thinly veiled insults toward Sistani.

One man in the crowd, to the approval of those around him, yelled that "Kubanchi is an agent of Israel," an incendiary accusation in Iraq.

A pro-Sistani cleric in the crowd looked at the jeering Mahdi Army members and supporters.

"You know the Nazis," he said, "this is exactly how they acted."
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