Hajji Moqtada

"In a very dramatic (yet expected) move, the Saudi King had a royal lunch/meeting with Moqtada As-Sadr (aka Al-Sadr). As-Sadr went to Saudi Arabia a couple of weeks to take apart of the ongoing Hajj ceremonies. Neither of the two leaders announced the reason behind their small summit, but I have some predictions about it.

Let me give you a background about As-Sadr first in case you forgot about him already…

When As-Sadr supporters had their minor clashes with the US army in April 2004, Donald Rumsfeld announced to the media, based on what I remember, that the Sadr movement is a small bunch of thugs that doesn’t exceed 600 people. At that time, I blogged about the Sadr supporters and mentioned that their number is between 5 and 7 million Iraqis, 3 million of them live in As-Sadr City in Baghdad alone. Most of the supporters come from the less fortunate and very poor backgrounds."
Raed in the Middle

I want to announce a new project of my own, I am now accepting donations* to buy Raed a new camera and a six month crash photojournalist course.

*make all checks payable to madtom