Wow, that sure is tortured logic.
"Video confession surfaces in Iraq; Bomb suspect on tape, military says" by Steven Lee Myers, New York Times News | August 24, 2009
BAGHDAD - None of Ibrahim’s remarks could be confirmed independently, and what was shown left many questions about the bombings....
The videotaped confession, broadcast on state television channels, appeared to be part of an effort by security officials to ease public outrage and fear.....
Ibrahim described himself as a former police officer in Diyala province and a member of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party, which is banned in Iraq and which officials in Prime Minister Nouri Kamal al-Maliki’s government routinely blame for much of the violence in the country.
I thought they routinely blamed 'Al-CIA-Duh."
Iraq’s military showed yesterday what it called the confession of a mastermind of last week’s deadly attacks on two government ministries, and announced the arrests of police and army officers the man said had been bribed to allow a huge truck bomb through checkpoints into Baghdad.
In brief, edited excerpts of videotaped remarks, the man, identified as Wisam Ali Khazim Ibrahim, calmly explained how he had organized one of the two bombings, which killed about 100 people on Wednesday and wounded hundreds more. He said he did so on the orders of a man in Syria who wanted the attacks “to shake the administration.’’
A link to Syria, if confirmed, would most likely worsen relations between the two countries. Maliki has long accused Syria of providing a safe haven for former members of Saddam Hussein’s government and allowing fighters to cross the border. Only days before the bombing, Maliki traveled to Syria to demand that officials hand over those accused of backing the insurgency.
And CUI BONO, readers?
Didn't Syria's president just visit Iran?
Isn't the U.S. allegedly trying to smooth over relations at the moment?
Odd timing for this whole deal, isn't it?
Iraq’s foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, on Saturday bluntly criticized the government and security forces for lapses that led to the attacks, including the one aimed at his ministry. He accused the security forces of complicity, which the confession appeared to confirm at least on a local level....
You see, the IRAQIS KNOW!!!!
The ONLY ONES who don't are the newspaper-reading American public!
And how about that evening troll in Baghdad, huh?
Four days after a truck bombing targeted the foreign ministry building, wreckage was still strewn on a street in Baghdad yesterday. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/ AFP/ Getty Images)
Do you see the three people in that photograph?
THAT is what I CARE ABOUT, readers!
