Sadr Calls U.S., Britain, Israel ‘Triad of Evil’
Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr described the United States, Israel and Britain as a “triad of evil” in a television interview Friday.
The reference was an obvious play on the words President Bush used in his 2002 State of the Union address, when he labeled Iraq, Iran and North Korea an “axis of evil.”
Sadr also claimed that the attack last month on a Shiite shrine in the central city of Samarra was carried out “in collusion with the occupiers and the Zionist entity of Israel,” referring to the U.S. and its ally.
Hundreds of Iraqis died in sectarian violence after the shrine bombing. Sunni Arabs say Sadr’s Al Mahdi militia was behind much of the bloodshed.
Sadr spoke on state-controlled Al Iraqiya television.
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