Posted on 02/06/2005 5:05:38 PM PST by wagglebee
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraqi security forces arrested a former general in Saddam Hussein's military whom they accuse of financing insurgents, including the makers of roadside bombs used against U.S. troops, the country's interim government said Sunday.
Khamis Masin Farhan al-Ugaydi, also known as Abu Sabaa, was a brigadier general in the Iraqi army during Saddam's regime, according to a statement from the interim government.
The 51-year old Arab was captured December 20 in Beiji, north of the capital, after elements of the Iraqi national guard and other security forces acted on a tip from Iraqis.
The government did not explain the delay in releasing news of his arrest.
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Uhhm...well for starters, CNN, they don't have to tell you squat.
CNN by its own admission covered up Saddam's crimes for 12 years, just to keep their Baghdad office open. I wouldn't tell them a damn think either!
Great point! "Who do you trust?"
These guys never hear of Echelon?
Another ARAB!
Yeah, it's great to use a media outlet that makes every attempt to denigrate our efforts. It's a delicious double tap. We get to toy with CNN's psyche and use their own broadcasts to help us round up more rats.
Hang in there and do a search for Rumsfeld in the next few days. I betcha there will be a link to the video soon. It was a smackdown and our guy won.
Our guys too? Still a great take-down.
Only a complete nitwit or a CNN staffer - but I repeat myself - would fail to realize the intelligence advantages of not releasing this information right away. Personally I hope they're using a rechargable cattle prod - throwing away all those batteries is bad for the environment.
Perhaps they needed a little time to allow him to spill his guts.
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34. Sabaa
Syed Abu-Ala' Maududi's Chapter Introductions to the Quran
Name
The Sura takes its name from verse 15 in which the word Saba has occurred which implies that it is the Sura in
which mention has been made of Saba (i. e. the Sabaeans).
Period of Revelation
The exact period of its revelation is not known from any reliable tradiiion. However the style shows that it is
either the middle or the early Makkan period. If it is the middle period it was probably its initial stage when the
persecution had not yet become tyrannical and the Islamic movement was being suppressed only by resort to
derision and ridicule rumour mongering false allegations and casting of evil suggestions in the people's minds.
Theme and Subject Matter
The Surah deals with those objections of the disbelievers, which they were raising against the Holy Prophet's
message of Tauhid and the Hereafter, and about his Prophethood itself, mostly in the form of absurd allegations
and taunts and mockery. These objections have been answered, sometimes by citing them and sometimes
without citing them, and the discourse itself shows which objection is being answered at a particular place. The
answers mostly take the form of instruction and admonition and argument, but at some places the disbelievers
have been warned also of the evil consequences, of their stubborness. In this connection, the stories of the
Sabaeans and the Prophets David and Solomon have been related to impress this lesson: "You have both these
historical precedents before you. On the one hand, there were the Prophets David and Solomon, who had been
blessed by Allah with great powers and such grandeur and glory as had been granted to hardly any people
before them. In spite of this, they were not proud and arrogant, but remained grateful servants of their Lord.
They were never rebellious. On the other hand, there were the people of Saba, who, when blessed by Allah,
became proud, and were consequently so thoroughly destroyed and dispersed as to be remembered only in
myths and legends. With these precedents in view, you may see and judge for yourselves as to which kind of
the life is better: that which is built on belief in Tauhid and the Hereafter and the attitude of gratefulness to
Allah, or that which is based on disbelief and shirk and denial of the Hereafter and the worship of the world."
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I Googled the name abu Sabaa, it is common enough, a Palestine name.
Found the above and thought it fitting for his choice of names.
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