These wonderfully brave men of god are worth more alive than as suicide bombers.

RPG. Rocket Propelled Grenades are better at targeting the correct people than the randomness of a suicide bomb. I am certain if these men wanted to be trained with sophisticated weapons, such as body armor and shoulder borne rocket launchers, the USA advisers would be happy to train them correctly.

It is better to live and fight another day than abandon those you love in a single act of devotion.

June 21, 2014
By C. J. Chivers
...As their numbers grew, (click here) they swelled into a seemingly unending procession of volunteers with rifles, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, backed by mortar crews and gun and rocket trucks.
The Mahdi Army, the paramilitary force that once led a Shiite rebellion against American troops here, was making its largest show of force since it suspended fighting in 2008. This time, its fighters were raising arms against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, the Qaeda splinter group that has driven Iraq’s security forces from parts of the country’s north and west.
Chanting “One, two, three, Mahdi!” they implored their leader, the cleric Moktada al-Sadr, to send them to battle....