Yesterday I stated that I heard on MSNBC that Moktada al-Sadr was visiting the wounded in Iraq and giving them money. Well today in the Washington Post they have a story verifying what I heard. Here are some excerpts from the article concerning this similarity that he has with Nasrallah of the Hezbollah group:

Sadr is widely believed to be modeling his movement after Lebanon's Shiite Muslim Hezbollah, which has both an armed and a political wing and provides social services to its followers.

At Khadisiya Hospital, militiamen assisted doctors and nurses, carrying patients into emergency rooms, Abid said. With hospital supplies thin, Sadr officials sent over syringes, medicines and other equipment donated by merchants. And with only four ambulances in circulation, most of the wounded were being brought in cars.

Over the weekend, groups of Sadr officials and Mahdi Army militiamen visited the relatives of victims in large funeral tents erected in front of their houses, a tradition across Iraq. They brought food and envelopes of money, Fartoosi said.

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Here is the entire article