NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - The leader of a messianic Muslim cult was killed with 200 or more followers during a day-long onslaught by U.S. and Iraqi forces on their camp near the holy city of Najaf, Iraqi officials said on Monday.
They accused him of making a claiming to be the Mahdi...
Cult leader and 200 others killed: Iraqi officials
Mahdi is the prophesied redeemer of Islam who will arise at some point before the day of judgement, institute a kingdom of justice, and will in the last days fight alongside the returned Islamic prophet Jesus against the Dajjal, or Antichrist.
"Before the appearance of the one who will rise, peace be upon him, the people will be reprimanded for their acts of disobedience by a fire that will appear in the sky and a redness that will cover the sky. It will swallow up Baghdad, and will swallow up Kufa. Their blood will be shed and houses destroyed. Death will occur amid their people and a fear will come over the people of Iraq from which they shall have no rest."
Shi'a Imam, Jafar al-Sadiq
A very dangerous turn for the worse in Iraq. Cultist hell bent on ending the world are flocking to Iraq from around the Islamic world.
This nutter is the first and he will not be the last.
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