"Embarrassing" Leaked Video Shows Radical Iraq Cleric al-Sadr Rambling, Anxious, Disorganized...


One day after the Pentagon identified his Mahdi Army as eclipsing al Qaeda in Iraq as "the most dangerous accelerant" of violence in that country, IraqSlogger has obtained a video of Muqtada al Sadr in which he rambles, questions the loyalty of deputies, and appears to struggle to control his own organization.

The Arabic-language video, apparently recorded in October, recently surfaced on Iraqi Web sites critical of Sadr.


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