Senior police officers plotted to bomb interior ministry: Iraq

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2005/July/focusoniraq_July42.xml§ion=focusoniraq

Iraqi security forces have foiled a plot by senior police officers linked to Al Qaeda to bomb the interior ministry, Interior Minister Bayan Solagh told a news conference Thursday.

“We arrested over the past few days a secret military network comprising eight senior police officers and other policemen from the 2nd Brigade who were linked to the so-called Zarqawi group” of Al Qaeda in Iraq, the minister said.

The 2nd Brigade is responsible for the police car pool.

“The network intended to assassinate top officers and completely destroy the interior ministry,” he said, refusing to give further details.

[Barrett808]

1. Plausible, but...

One always has to wonder about internal purges.

[thebigidea]

2. cue talking head babbling about what a great job Petraeus is doing

blah blah blah Petraeus blah blah magnificent job training Iraqis blah blah blah of course we can't tell you how many he's actually trained blah blah blah or how many actually stay at their job blah blah blah

[Roland99]

3. Not surprised. Seymour Hersh said the insurgents had the gov't "wired"

http://www.conjur.com/blog/2005/03/04/an-audience-with-seymour-hersh/

The Iraqi resistance has the government wired. They have people in various key areas of the government. Hersh made a point of emphasizing that.