Posted on 11/03/2003 10:15:10 AM PST by mhking
That's all we've got; no details yet.
THAT is what we need them to do...be more vocal.
If there is an average of 50 murders a day, how does 'the media' pick one to blow out of proportion? The mute button comes in handy.
But not all 4.2 inch rounds have the lands and grooves. The illumination rounds for example have none and are dropped straight down the tube while the HE rounds (because of the grooves) spiral down the tube slowly.
The others I mentioned are smooth bore.
He said they get fired at nightly, they know exactly where the shots are coming from but are given orders not to shoot back. He said he feels like they are standing around waiting to get fired at.
He also said they have so many rules they have to follow it drives them crazy. When they take a prisoner, they have to assign him to a bed. His son said it was sickening, especially given the fact that many of his men did not have beds and bunked on the floor.
That may be what they personally desire, but thier religious belief is that you and I are infidels whose very existence is an affront to Allah.
We occupy the same level as a dog in their religious teachings. That's why our superior technology is a direct challenge to the teachings of Mohammed that they are inherently superior in everything.
The car your Christian culture designed and built is by its very existence a sacriledge that challenges the word of Mohammed.
Take a chill pill, will ya?! Sheesh! I'm a Christian and my heart goes out to all Christians in the muslim world. I didn't see the map as a hard core conviction/commitment to totally wiping off the face of the the earth the entire region. I could be wrong but assume the creator of the map was just expressing a mental point that completely getting rid of the ME just might solve the problem...almost like an editorial cartoon. Lighten up will ya?! No need to take it soooooo seriously.
NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) - The judge behind the creation of a judicial commission to probe former officials of Saddam Hussein's ousted regime was shot dead, as insurgents stepped up their campaign against pro-US public figures.
Muhan Jabr al-Shuwaili, the top judge in the central governorate of Najaf, was kidnapped along with Najaf prosecutor general Aref Aziz, from the judge's house in the city early Monday, Aziz said.
The two were taken in cars to a desert area eight kilometers (five miles) north of Najaf, he said.
"One of the assailants said 'Saddam has ordered your prosecution.' Then they fired two shots into his head," Aziz said.
"As for me, they told me 'this does not concern you'. They released me," he added.
Shuwaili had signed onto the decision to create the Baath Investigative Commission, made up of four attorneys who probe complaints before raising them with an investigative judge.
The commission, created on August 10 upon a decision by the municipal council, was meant to prosecute former regime loyalists, mainly members of the former ruling Baath party. It has so far received 400 complaints.
The commission -- unique in Iraq -- has issued 160 arrest warrants, upon which 50 people have been detained.
Last month, a member of Iraq's interim Governing Council said an Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST) would shortly be set up for judges to try Saddam-era crimes against humanity, war crimes and charges of genocide and torture.
Also in Najaf, the president of the city's municipal council, Sheikh Khaled al-Numani, said he had escaped an assassination bid late Sunday when assailants opened fire on his house, triggering retaliatory fire by his guards.
"Two of the three assailants were caught. One of them is an Egyptian named Rabih al-Masri who has been living in Najaf for a long time," Numani told AFP.
"The attempt was carried out by remnants of the former regime and parties collaborating with them," he said.
"It is time for the American occupation forces to give back the security file to the Iraqis who know better the issues of their own country."
Numani is an official of Iraq's top Shiite political party, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). He is also one of the most vocal supporters of prosecuting former regime loyalists.
In Baghdad, a member of a neighborhood council sponsored by the Americans was killed in a drive-by shooting late Sunday, the US-led coalition said in a statement on Monday.
"Mustafa Zaidan al-Khaleefa, the chairperson of the Karkh Neighborhood Council, was killed on Sunday evening ... while he was walking alone on Haifa street near his home" in central Baghdad, said the statement.
A white Toyota Corolla with no license plates drove up and one of its occupants shot him, it said.
The deadly shootings of the judge and the neighborhood council member were the third assassinations to be carried out against anti-Saddam figures in the past eight days.
On October 26, Baghdad's deputy mayor, Faris Abdul Razzaq al-Assam, was gunned down near his home in the conflict-riven city.
On August 29, prominent Shiite spiritual and political leader Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer al-Hakim, who opposed armed resistance to the US occupation of Iraq, was killed in a car bombing in Najaf along with 82 others.
Akila al-Hashimi, a member of the US-installed Governing Council, was also shot dead by assailants near her Baghdad home on September 20.
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