They would have been better off with Saddam Hussein.
Let's start there, shall we?
"Top Hussein aide sentenced to death; Appeal could stall execution indefinitely" by Jack Healy, New York Times | October 27, 2010
BAGHDAD — Tariq Aziz, a former top aide to Saddam Hussein and his urbane public relations representative to the world, was sentenced to death by an Iraqi court yesterday....
For years, Aziz, a former foreign minister and deputy prime minister, served as the bespectacled face of that government, a cigar-smoking emissary who sought to justify, in fluent English, Iraq’s use of chemical weapons, invasion of oil-rich Kuwait, and killings of Shi’ites and Kurds.
Because Hussein rarely left Iraq out of fears for his safety, Aziz often represented Iraq at the United Nations and other global settings, serving as a public defender of Hussein before the US-led invasion of 2003.
Aziz surrendered to US forces shortly after the invasion, aware that, for Americans, he was among Iraq’s most hunted officials and one of the best-known emblems of the Hussein era. He was handed over to Iraqi jailers this year as Americans transferred security powers to Iraq and withdrew US combat troops....
Related: Occupation Iraq: The Final Days of Tariq Aziz
One of his lawyers, Badea Araf Azzit, dismissed the sentence as a ploy aimed at distracting attention from Iraq’s political stalemate and the recent publication of a trove of US war records that described widespread prisoner abuse by Iraqi guards and security forces....
Related: Occupation Iraq: Slow Torture on a Saturday
Also see: Occupation Iraq: Moving In on Maliki
Getting too cozy with Iran, is he?
Aziz’s lawyers have long maintained he was responsible only for Iraq’s diplomatic and political relations and had no ties to the executions and purges carried out by Hussein’s Ba’athist government. Hussein was hanged in 2006, less than two months after his death sentence had been handed down.
Aziz’s son Ziad, 44, said he believes his father was blindsided by the news. When they spoke on the phone three days earlier, the elder Aziz asked his son to send him clothes, food, and medicine and did not mention that sentencing was imminent.
“We don’t know the next step,’’ Ziad Aziz said. “We have no chance of protecting him.’’
Ziad Aziz said his father remains in poor health. In January, the US military said in a statement that he had a blood clot in the brain. He was taken to a US military hospital north of Baghdad for treatment....
Death sentences were handed down yesterday against other former officials in Hussein’s government including Abed Hammoud, a former secretary, and former interior minister Sadoun Shakir....
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And the Zionist war-mongers must be getting really desperate.
"19 die as police free Baghdad hostages" by Associated Press | November 1, 2010
BAGHDAD — Islamic militants held about 120 Iraqi Christians hostage for nearly four hours in a church yesterday before security forces stormed the building and freed them, ending a standoff that left at least 19 people dead, US and Iraqi officials said.
Security officials said the militants, who were allegedly linked to Al Qaeda in Iraq, were on the phone with Iraqi authorities demanding the release of imprisoned female insurgents when security forces stormed the building.
Yeah, well, which "Al-CIA-Duh" would that be, huh?
The made-up "Al-CIA-Duh?"
Or the "Al-CIA-Duh" CREATION for the COURTROOM!?
Related:
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh and the OSI
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh's Greatest Hits
Prop 101: The "Terrorism" Business
New York Times Admits War on Terror is U.S. Creation
Oh, AmeriKa's MSM KNOWS ALL ABOUT and yet STILL PUSHES the CHARADE, huh?
The standoff began at dusk when the militants attacked the nearby Iraqi stock exchange, officials said. Police then chased the insurgents toward the Our Lady of Deliverance church, one of Baghdad’s main Catholic places of worship.
Worshipers inside were listening to a Bible reading when the gunmen burst in, said parishioner Marzina Matti Yalda....
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"Militants stage deadliest attack on Iraqi Christians; Despite rescue attempt, 58 die at Baghdad church" by Barbara Surk, Associated Press | November 2, 2010
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s dwindling Christian community was grieving and afraid yesterday after militants seized a Baghdad church during evening Mass, held the congregation hostage, and triggered a raid by Iraqi security forces. The bloodbath left at least 58 people dead and 78 wounded — nearly everyone inside.
The attack, claimed by an organization linked to Al Qaeda, was the deadliest ever recorded against Iraq’s Christians, whose numbers have plummeted since the 2003 US-led invasion as the community has fled to other countries....
Now that we know what "Al-CIA-Duh" is we can ask WHO IS BEHIND what is going on in Iraq?
See:
Occupation Iraq: Israel's IEDs
Occupation Iraq: Israelis Killing U.S. Troops
Occupation Iraq: Israeli-Trained Death Squads
Plan B
"Al-CIA-Duhs" Catch-and-Release Program
Asymmetrical Warfare Group
Operation Gladio
Operation Northwoods
Occupation Iraq: British Bombers
Occupation Iraq: America's Roadside Bombs
'The Salvador Option'
Special Police Commandos
Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group
Prop 201 tutorial
FRU
Islam's 9/11
Who is Bombing in Iraq? Are the bombers Al-Qaeda, the CIA or Israel?
How much more evidence do you need?
Pope Benedict XVI denounced the assault as “ferocious’’ and called for renewed international efforts to broker peace in the region.
The Pope is a pooper-pumping fool. And I'm Catholic!
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki also condemned the siege, saying it was an attempt to drive more Christians out of the country.
Islamic militants have systematically attacked Christians in Iraq since the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime, effectively chasing more than 1 million people out of the country, according to estimates from an adviser to Iraq’s top Catholic prelate, Chaldean Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly.
Gee, who would want Christians fighting Muslims for no reason?
Who tricked us into Iraq, America?
In an interview, the cardinal encouraged the country’s remaining 1.5 million Christians not to be driven off by the militants.
Sunday’s carnage began at dusk, when a deadly car bomb went off in the area. Militants wearing suicide vests and armed with grenades then attacked the Iraqi stock exchange, injuring two guards.
The attacks may have been an attempt by the militants to divert attention from their real target — the nearby church in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood.
Above it was implied they were chased there.
In reading this I'm not really interested in the latest cover story bullshit the AmeriKan media is peddling. What bothers me is the amount of stories fanning these flames that the propaganda pages have been running.
I've never had a beef with Muslims; however, I do have a problem with the lying, war-promoting, mind-manipulating Zionist press organs that pass as newspapers in AmeriKa. I'm not falling for this s*** anymore.
The assault on the church soon followed. The gunmen went inside the structure and took about 120 worshippers hostage.
The dead included 12 police officers and five bystanders thought to have been killed by the blasts outside the church before the attackers stormed inside. Forty-one Christians inside the church also died, including two priests. Iraqi officials had initially provided a much lower death toll.
A statement posted late Sunday on a militant website, allegedly by the Islamic State of Iraq, appeared to claim responsibility for the attack. The group, which is linked to Al Qaeda in Iraq, said it would “exterminate Iraqi Christians’’ if Muslim women in Egypt were not freed....
WTF are they dragging Egypt into this for?
An Iraqi official said he had a phone conversation with a militant, who demanded that authorities release all Al Qaeda-linked prisoners starting with the women. The official said he judged by the militant’s accent and speech that he was not Iraqi.
Yeah, well.... sigh.
When Iraqi special forces joined police and other officials already on the scene, they heard gunshots and decided to enter the church “to prevent the further loss of innocent lives,’’ said Lieutenant Colonel Terry L. Conder, a spokesman for US special forces.
The Iraqi official said that when the security forces stormed the church, the militants were shooting at the hostages.
Yup, that prevented loss of life all right.
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"Al Qaeda threat targets Christians; Group cites claim converts to Islam being held captive" by Sinan Salaheddin, Associated Press | November 4, 2010
BAGHDAD — Al Qaeda’s front group in Iraq has threatened more attacks on Christians after a siege on a Baghdad church that left 58 people dead, linking the warning to claims that Egypt’s Coptic Church is holding women captive for converting to Islam.
Do you KNOW HOW TIRED I AM of the THEME, dear readers?
The Islamic State of Iraq, which has claimed responsibility for Sunday’s assault on a Catholic church during Mass in downtown Baghdad, said its deadline for Egypt’s Copts to release the women had expired and its fighters would attack Christians wherever they can be reached.
Yeah, whatever you say, lying dirt bag media.
“We will open upon them the doors of destruction and rivers of blood,’’ the insurgent group said in a statement posted late Tuesday on militant websites.
Yeah, like I am supposed to BUY INTO THOSE GOVERNMENT CREATED and OPERATES pieces of GARBAGE!!
It's ALL A FRAUD, folks! TERRORISM is a GOVERNMENT CREATED, FUNDED, and DIRECTED ENTERPRISE!
The Islamic State of Iraq is an umbrella group that includes Al Qaeda in Iraq and other allied Sunni insurgent factions. It is unclear exactly what led the group to seize on the conversion disputes between Egypt’s Muslims and its minority Christians, although the issue has become a rallying point for hard-line Islamists in Egypt....
What S***!!!!!!
I'm clear on what led them to do it: the WARS are getting PRETTY DAMN OLD with EVERYONE -- thus we get THIS BULL-ONEY to try and STIR THINGS UP AGAIN!
Over the past few years in Egypt, arguments over similar alleged conversions have exacerbated Muslim-Christian tensions already high over issues like the construction of new churches. The two communities generally live in peace.
Yeah, I gave that LAST PART of BIG BOLD because we NEVER READ or SEE MUCH of THAT!!
That is what makes the WHOLE religious retribution crap STINK to HIGH HEAVEN!!
Yup, MUSLIMS were NOT BURNING DOWN or BLOWING UP CHURCHES or MOSQUES in ALL the CENTURIES they lived together until WE GET THERE!
The Baghdad church siege was the deadliest ever recorded against Iraq’s Christians, whose numbers have plummeted since the 2003 US-led invasion.
Think of it as Bush's liberation.
The death toll in a series of attacks mainly targeting Shi’ites Tuesday in Baghdad, meanwhile, rose to 91, according to Iraqi police and hospital officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press.
Yup, try to goad them into a response.
Iraqi state TV aired footage yesterday of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki visiting victims of the blasts in Baghdad’s hospitals. The televised trips to civilians wounded in attacks were a first for Maliki....
When government makes a show of how much they care why do I smell a stink?
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Let's not leave the Shi'ites out of the "fun":
"Bombings across Baghdad kill 76, wound 230 in mostly Shi’ite areas" by Rebecca Santana, Associated Press | November 3, 2010
BAGHDAD — Rapid-fire bombings and mortar strikes killed 76 people and wounded more than 230 across Baghdad’s neighborhoods yesterday.
The attack — blasts in at least 13 separate neighborhoods — was clearly designed to hit civilians at restaurants and cafes where many Iraqis were gathered to enjoy the warm evening. The sophistication and the targets — Shi’ites — suggested that Al Qaeda-linked Sunni militants were responsible for the deadliest day in Iraq since May.
And if the lying newspapers says it, well, it must be true!
The strikes, two days after the bloody siege of a downtown church, were stunning in their scope — indicating a high degree of coordination from an insurgency that just a few months ago US and Iraqi officials were saying was all but defeated....
Have you had enough of that BS from your military and media yet, America?
Amazing how those STOO-PID INSURGENTS can't wait a few more months until we are allegedly out, huh?
CUI BONO?
The bombings began at about 6:15 p.m. and lasted for hours. The assailants used booby-trapped cars and a motorcycle, roadside bombs, and mortars. Though 10 neighborhoods targeted were home to mostly Shi’ites, a couple of strikes hit Sunni communities as well....
Yeah, WHY NOT!?
The surge in violence is raising fresh concerns about the planned pullout of American troops next year.
Yeah, that sure is tortured logic .
A State Department audit concluded yesterday that the Obama administration could be overstating what US diplomats can do to contain Iraq’s ethnic and sectarian tensions without US military forces.
Hillary Clinton undercutting Obama already.
And now Netanyahu is paying Biden and Clinton a visit while you are in India?
Enjoy the one-term, Obama. You look like you have been.
The auditors also questioned whether American diplomats who remain behind will be adequately protected against violence, and their report faulted Washington for its planning of the transition from a US military-led mission in Iraq to one run by American civilians in 2011.
We AIN'T LEAVING, Amurkns, and NEVER WERE!!
And we WILL HAVE to keep the CONTRACTOR$ there, too!!
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