Sadr to Zarqawi: Out! posted by Richard Seymour

The charismatic chubster Moqtada al-Sadr has issued a statement indicating that if Zarqawi were to cross paths with his militia, he would be "torn apart":

The statement put out by al-Zarqawi's al-Qaeda in Iraq group on Tuesday, saying they would only strike the Shiites who don't condemn attacks on Sunnis or the US occupation of Iraq, has provoked a harsh response from one of the groups named as not being a target. "In Abu Musab al-Zarqawi making an exception in our case, the Jordanian terrorist is trying to force a split within the Shiite world," said Riad Nur, spokesman for the movement of rebel Shiite imam Moqtada al-Sadr, when interviewed by the Arab newspaper al-Hayat.

"With yesterday's statement, in which our movement was excluded from al-Qaeda's total war on the Shiites, he is trying to divide the Shiite school, insinuating that there is a internal conflict between the groups," Nur said.

The Shiite spokesman went on to call on the Jordanian insurgent leader and his followers to immediately leave Iraq and stressed that "for our movement, al-Zarqawi is nothing but an enemy and if he falls into the hands of our militia he will be torn apart."

While we're in that bright spot under the sun, remember those revolting, pornographic videos of captives of Tawhid wal Jihad being beheaded, murdered in the most humiliating fashion? These videos were not shown to BBC news watchers, of course, but there was a lot of giddy excitement and revulsion about them as imaginations filled in the gap. What to make of this, this, this and this? (Warning: You really don't want to see those pictures or the messages that go with them if you think killing people is wrong and stuff.)

Now, that website gives US soldiers free passes to their pornographic department if they post pictures and video tape of the gruesome bodies they are accruing there - and some plucky soldiers have replied in abundance. Not so far removed from the Ramadi Madness videos made by US soldiers of dead Ay-rab bodies with amusing titles like "Those Crafty Little Bastards" and "Another Day, Another Mission, Another Scumbag." Or this charming home video. The difference this time is that they're doing it in public in return for a free erection.