Government Official Assassinated in Iraq

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031119/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&cid=540&ncid=1480

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen assassinated a provincial Iraqi official in the southern town of Diwaniyah, authorities said Wednesday, while some Baghdad residents complained of punitive U.S. raids against suspected rebel hideouts.

An Arabic language newspaper, meanwhile, published a statement signed by Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath Party declaring that armed resistance would continue despite plans by the U.S.-led coalition of chief administrator L. Paul Bremer to accelerate the transfer of power to Iraqis.

The statement, which appeared Wednesday in the Web edition of the London-based newspaper Al-Hayat, said the new U.S. timetable for handing over sovereignty "will not influence the nature of the confrontation and its course set forth by the Iraqi resistance".

"Those who occupy Iraq, be it through multinational forces under whatever arrangements, will be treated as occupiers that should be legal targets for resistance," the statement said.

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[LibLabUK]

1. Hmm

Reminds me of Winston Churchill's standing order to "The Auxiliaries", the group of hand picked men and women who were to fight a guerilla war against a German invasion. The order was to kill German enlisted men and officers, disrupt and destroy supplies and materiel and assassinate collaborators.

Isn't there a bust of Churchill in the Oval Office?

[J B]

2. The following made me dumbfounded, speechless, stunned.

On Tuesday night, U.S. forces again targeted an abandoned dye factory in southern Baghdad that was hit twice last week by artillery and air strikes. Aerial attacks were also reported on orchards and empty farmland surrounding the military base on Baghdad's western outskirts.


The military said the continuing attacks were part of Operation Iron Hammer, the new aggressive tactic of initiating attacks against insurgents before they strike.

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Oh my f'ing god.

[remfan]

3. Initiating attacks on orchards, farmland, and abandoned

buildings before they have a chance to strike here in the Homeland.

Go USA! :eyes:

[LibLabUK]

6. Question

Aren't attacks on farmland and orchards specifically prohibited by the convention?

[Mal]

7. Your missing the point

The US isn't bombing the 'suspected sites' in order to successfully fight the resistance; they're bombing the sites in order to LOOK like they're successfully fighting the resistance.
There's an election coming up, don't you know.

[saigon68]

4. Another one bites the dust

The army can't protect everybody.

[teryang]

5. The DUMPEX continues...

<But residents expressed bewilderment at the choice of targets in territory fully controlled by coalition forces, and said there was no sign of any guerrilla activity in the area prior to the strikes.>

The statement that resistance would continue despite any increased international participation is a road sign to all. The attacks on the UN and Italian troops indicate that this isn't an idle threat.
UN participation isn't going to legitimize the occupation. Neither is NATO. Their participation may ease guilty consciences in America and spread some costs on the margin but the intractable problem we created by the illegal application of force isn't going away unless we go away.

[izzie]

8. Did anyone see the picture on TV of the persons hand in handcuffs?

Some house US troops were going in Iraq and finding terrorist. These hands were just shaking all over the place. I would like to see that turn up on the news once more.It said more than any other picture I had seen.Did anyone else see that?

[leftchick]

10. I saw it too izzie....

It is shameful and despicable what the US is doing in Iraq. :(

[catmandu57]

9. When they install the puppett government

How long before they meet the same fate?