Abdul-Satar al-Bahadli

Sheikh Abdul-Satar al-Bahadli is a senior Iraqi Shia cleric and confederate of Muqtada al-Sadr.

On 7 May 2004, speaking in the city of Basra, he made a public announcement at a mosque offering cash rewards: 350 dollars for the capture of male British soldiers, 150 dollars for male British soldiers killed. He gave permission to keep female British soldiers as slaves. Source: "Eight Lives Down", memoir by Christopher Hunter.


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