Posted on 05/17/2004 2:11:23 AM PDT by ambrose
Straw: Murder must not deter power transfer
17/05/2004 - 09:50:41
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said today the killing of the head of the Iraqi Governing Council should not deter the transfer of power from US-led coalition forces next month.
Straw condemned the car bombing which killed Abdel-Zahraa Othman, also known as Izzadine Saleem, and said the leader was among “seven or eight other people” killed, he said.
“What this shows is that the terrorists and insurgents in Iraq are trying to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power from the occupiers to the Iraqi people, and these terrorists are enemies of the Iraqi people themselves,” Straw said.
Straw made the comments as he arrived at a European Union foreign ministers meeting, which was to discuss the latest developments in Iraq.
“Everybody is interested in having an Iraq that is stable, an Iraq in which Iraqis have a responsibility for the future of their country … That is the aim that we have,” said EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana.
The recent pictures of alleged Iraqi prisoner abuse by American soldiers will also be raised at the meeting, as will allegations made by Danish army medics that British forces were abusing Iraqi soldiers at a field hospital in southern Iraq.
Straw however said there was “no collateral supporting evidence” yet to back those Danish claims.
Two Danish army medics working in a British field hospital in southern Iraq last autumn said they saw two Iraqis who were exposed to “brutal treatment,” including one who allegedly died from his injuries, the Danish Defence Ministry said last Thursday.
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I hope we can prove foreign involvement (Syria, Iran)
Ping.
This has long been predicted and should come as no surpise. Hopefully his followers will rise up.
We must do what the Israelis have been doing lately: find and kill the leadership of the terror organizations no matter where they are hiding.
Bump!
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