Baghdad commander of Iraqi security forces assassinated

[Tinoire]

(Sorry if this is a dupe - I don't recall seeing it)

Baghdad commander of Iraqi security forces assassinated
(DPA)
28 December 2004


BAGHDAD - The commander of the Iraqi National Guard in the capital city was assassinated on Tuesday by a suicide bomber who drove a car bomb into the convoy transporting the official, witnesses said.


In addition to killing Madhar al-Maula, the explosion wounded several convoy passengers. Sheikh Hazim al-Shalan, the interim defence minister, later visited the site of the explosion.

North of Baghdad, a dozen Iraqi policemen were killed by insurgents who attacked a police station about 15 kilometres outside Tikrit, police said.

(snip)

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2004/December/focusoniraq_December230.xml§ion=focusoniraq

[goodboy]

1. I thought they said on CNN that he made it uninjured...wow...

[jayfish]

6. That's CNN For You.

The probably got the info straight from the Department Of Propaganda and couldn't be bothered to verify it. You really should stop watching it.

Jay

GRAMMAR + SPELLING EDIT

[goodboy]

13. I know I should stop watching it...I mainly use it as background noise.

[Tansy_Gold]

15. g r a m m A r

n/t

[jayfish]

16. That's Just Cold.

:hi:

Jay

[robertpaulsen]

2. I haven't seen it yet either.

US Corporate Media drops the ball again, as usual.

[shraby]

4. RP

welcome back. I was going to contact you and find out where you've been.

[MichiganVote]

3. Making progress, Freedom on the March,Safer at home,blah, blah,blah

And hey, you go to war with the Iraqi's you have left, not the one's you want or wish were still around.

[Just Me]

19. Ouch.

Ouch.

That hurts,...seriously :cry:

Lives at their disposal,...and "they" care nothing about anyone other than themselves.

Freakin' predators!!! :argh:

[MichiganVote]

26. Predators aren't political. Politicians are.

[Supersedeas]

29. Fighting the terraaahhist over there instead of our own backyard

like a rented nuclear testing ground.

[Straight Shooter]

5. Is democracy messy? You bet!

F-U Rumsfeld.

[Just Me]

7. Just,...please,...give these people their country back.

We're simply wreaking havoc against people who never invited this hellish invasion.

If this neoCONimperialist administration truly believed that "freedom" empowers people,...why won't they just get the hell out and allow "freedom" to reign? They toppled Saddam. Why won't they STOP suppressing "freedom" with their destructive military force against the innocents?

The truth is the neoCONimperialists never valued "freedom", human "freedom",...as evidenced by their every freakin' endeavor to control the flow of economic and political benefit from their power.

Destruction is profit to the neoCONimperialists.

I imagine boils covering the neoCONimperialists' bodies,...for emotional/intellectual/spiritual release.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Darn those flowers are getting really fast

what was used? Explosive petals?

[shraby]

10. Flowers coated with

those explosives that were left unguarded.

[Karenina]

9. Is there any tally

of the U.S. trained "Iraqi security forces" that have been offed this year? This is SO FAR BEYOND RIDICULOUS.

[HawkerHurricane]

11. The penalty for collaboration

is death.
Always has been.

[VegasWolf]

12. awol admin still figuring how to spin the story! n/t

[da_chimperor]

14. The BBC says he made it . . . but who knows

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4129361.stm

:shrug:

[movonne]

17. Toby Keith, said that CNN was too liberal because they do not

report all the good going on in Iraq...It sound like a nightmare to me.

[Cha]

18. toby keith should stick to faux

then because they are the least informed citizens in this fascist country of ours.

[MGKrebs]

20. Iraq needs tort reform.

All the insurance costs must be spriraling out of control; life insurance, medical, environmental. Imagine if the "trial lawyers" are allowed to get a big award! It could be a disaster for the insurance companies!

[TacticalPeek]

21. This source is marching to a lonely cadence.

All other sources say the opposite, that the ING general was not killed, by which they mean General Modher Abud, not the fellow named here.

Maybe they meant deputy governor Muyad Marwan al-Ithawi, whose body was found riddled with bullets today; or maybe they meant Capt. Naem Muhanad Abdullah, a local police commander murdered today in Baqubah.

Perhaps they made a mistake?


http://ktla.trb.com/news/nationworld/world/ktla-122804iraq_lat,0,5776652.story?coll=ktla-news-1

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,11803710%255E401,00.html

[Tinoire]

22. I don't know

:shrug: but thanks for pointing this out. As soon as I finish my next thread for GD, I'll look and be the first one to ask the mods to lock if it's wrong. Thanks

On edit: I googled his name and this is the only story that came up.
:shrug:

[Algorem]

23. Hope this doesn't make Bagdad unsafe.

[diamond14]

24. could have been the work of OUR mercenaries....special ops...

in light of bush* problem in Northern Iraq, where KURDS are being executed in broad daylight, and fleeing for their lives....the genocide against the KURDS has just began...it's being perpetrated by the IRAQI SECURITY FORCES...people who bush* decided to arm and train and now they know how to do this in a militarily effective way, and they are fully armed to carry out the mission....

is bush* ALWAYS on vacation?

is he sleeping off a drinking/drugging binge down there in Crawford?


has anyone told Commander-in-Chief bush* about these problems in his his WARS?


This whole bush* war has been spiralling OUT OF CONTROL for a long time now...it's getting increasing difficult to determine who is KILLING who, and for what reasons????

[diamond14]

25. duplicate - please delete. thanks.

weird glitch...suddenly there was TWO of the same post...

[Disturbed]

27. War is good.

The MIC is greatful to the Bush Admin. for this war and that other one, ya know... Afghanistan.

[Just Me]

28. How's about we do a BEFORE and AFTER U.S. invasion photo-op!!!

Two months BEFORE the neoCONimperialists psy-op'ed the American citizens into a profiteering war,...Iraq looked like this________

Two years later, Iraq looks like this_____________

Now, take those pictures and add the hundreds of billions of national wealth funnelled into political corporations,...the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens physically traumatized on top of the millions of Iraqis emotionally impacted,...the entire nation of both Iraq and U.S.A. that has been impeached by this imperialistic/capitalistic spree,...

,...and you have a HORROR that will be documented as,...what it is,...ambitious, arrogant, insensitive, gloutonous, self-serving, power-mongers who PROVED themselves the floor rather than the ceiling of human potential.

I imagine their bodies covered with blisters for just/humanitarian/spiritual/emotional relief.

[diamond14]

30. and now, the full impact of bush* war is apparent...bush KILLED

as many INNOCENT PEOPLE (women/children/men) as the tsunami did....the only difference is the time frame for the killing....the sunami took a few hours, bush* took almost two years...

hopefully, Americans can now see the MAGNITUDE of what we are responsible for in Iraq.....

[Just Me]

32. Americans will NEVER know the magnitude of our Busholinis destruction.

Our "governance" will not tolerate that,...because,...then, we look "bad" and we HAVE to be "good".

[Karenina]

33. THAT is an EXCELLENT idea.

:think:

[despairing optimist]

31. Not so secure, are we?

Bernie Kerik must return quickly to make things right.

[vogonjiltz]

34. bbbut.....

I thought we broke the back of the insurgency.
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.