..Saleem was in a convoy of five vehicles, and the car carrying the bomb was adjacent to the council chief's car when it exploded, witness Mohammed Laith said. He said Saleem's driver and assistant were among those killed. Saleem held the council presidency, which rotates monthly among a selected group of members.
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One battle in a war where our troops are winning every confrontation, and a powerful symbolic win for our enemies, and major loss in leadership for the Iraqi people.
We can help by exposing those who continue to embolden this enemy, the American reporters who investigate and spread rumors to undermine and destroy allies - while ignoring decades of real enemy atrocities, goals, actions - and appeasing the big liar - Osama Bin Laden - who remains free of press scandal, unashamed before the free world and his misled followers, uninvestigated and accountable before the self-appointed immoral authorities in today's press.
While members of our free press investigate and attack our courageous SOD Rumsfeld, Osama's followers - who still work to committ genocide - and committed 911 - are still peddling lies about our troops and our nation, blaming America for the mass-murder of Iraqis under Saddam's evil regime.
Our free press is still claiming there was no basis for the war even as they continue to cover-up decades of Saddam's atrocities - and mock the missions and noble sacrifices of all those who are courageously fighting - and dying - to free the brutalized Iraqi people - and who DID rid Iraq of a monster.
Our free press, whose freedom was, and is, being purchased in blood, sweat and tears by those they misrepresent today, lie to the world by not investigating,challenging, criticizing, accusing, condemning our enemies - lie by ommission and commission - inflaming the Arab world - while choosing to spend their time, resources - and precious freedom - to investigate, challenge, criticize, accuse, condemn our troops, our SOD, our CinC - our allies - misinforming the free world - emboldening our enemies, endangering our troops daily.
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