Top Iraqi diplomat assassinated as three hostages butchered

asia.news.yahoo.com ^ | Sunday June 13, 6:28 AM | AFP

[livius]

They included "military dogs, temperature extremes, reversed sleep patterns, sensory deprivation and diets of bread and water on detainees whenever they wished," the Post said, citing US government documents.

Better than an industrial shredder. And nowhere does it approve the panty treatment. No smoking gun.

But I bet the late hostages would have been very happy even to be subjected to the dread panties-on-head treatment.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

Considering the treatment of the Lebanese and Iraqi hostages in having their throats slit I don't have a problem giving bread and water or depriving sleep. I frankly don't see where this is torture or abuse.

[Zack Nguyen]

Reversed sleep patterns? Sensory deprivation? This is not torture. There is no semipermanent/permanent physical harm being done here. This is "coercion" not torture.

[AngieGOP]

Torture to libs is watching black and white t.v. instead of color t.v.

[steplock]

Keep it up and we will not give a damned what happens to those terrorists! Actually I don't anyway!

[RightWhale]

What they might do about Fallujah is build a new road around it, put up a tall fence to block the view like they do around junkyards, and forget it.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Liberals think interrogations should take place over afternoon tea. Anything else is, well you know, primitive.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Best I can tell, they return to their cells with all appendages still attached.

[sarasota]

We've got to do something about Fallujah. The cesspool of hatred and violence. Enough of the ceasefire foolishness. Why do we allow this to continue?

[LoudRepublicangirl]

I would hope that enough Iraqi's get upset about their fellow Iraqi's being slaughtered by these pigs that they will start to do something about it. However I am afraid they will just blame us Americans as we seem to take the blame for everything else.

[RightWhale]

There are about two weeks left until the interim gov't takes over. After that we won't be concerned with Fallujah at all and Iraq as a whole will gradually fade from view. The idiotae can turn to stinking rot and seep into the ground.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Bassam Kubba, Iraqi undersecretary of foreign affairs, was shot dead outside his Baghdad home as he left for work, in an assault condemned by the new government which blamed supporters of ousted president Saddam Hussein.

"President" Saddam Hussein. The news media hangs that title on every scumbag tinhorn tyrant in the world and it makes me sick.

Everytime a POS terrorist pulls a stunt like this, the American news media gives them free media coverage beyond their wildest dreams. Pisses me off to no end.

[McGavin999]

The Iraqis will take care of Fallujah as soon as the June 30 turnover is complete. The first thing they will do is re-institute the death penalty that was suspended because our coalition partners objected to it.

They will start rounding up these guys and hanging them in the public square and suddenly the attacks will stop.

[johniegrad]

This is one of the stupidest articles I have ever read. It begins by talking about the assassination of an Iraqi diplomat and the murder of three foreign workers and then, inexplicably goes on to talk about the Abu Ghraib issue even though they are totally unrelated.

It would be like making a headline about the funeral of President Reagan and contrasting it with the LA Laker/Detroit Piston series.

These effin' "reporters" can't help but try to get back to that story even when it is totally irrelevant to the story they are trying to report.

[blam]

"The US-led coalition meanwhile said it was dissatisfied with progress made by Iraqi forces now patrolling Fallujah, and refused to rule out a return of US marines to the city.

We'll eventually have to kick a lot more butts in this POS city.

[lonevoice]

Insurgents cut the throats of the three employees of a telecommunications firm kidnapped Thursday on a road near Fallujah, a Lebanese diplomat said.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1144926/posts

WASHINGTON, May 30, 2004 – "There have been no cease-fire violations in Fallujah," Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy operations director for Multinational Force Iraq, told reporters at a Baghdad news conference.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1147690/posts

WND June 4, 2004 Fallujah adopts Taliban Theocracy -The United States has deployed the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps in Fallujah. But security officers have not intervened as Al-Qaida-inspired gunmen direct traffic, harass businessmen and look for victims on the streets. The Coalition Provisional Authority has a presence in Fallujah, but hasn't done anything either. Last month, Secretary of State Colin Powell said the United States would not object to an Iraqi theocracy.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1148856/posts

Washington Post June 6, 2004 Despite Agreement, Insurgents Rule Fallujah - The unruly gunmen -- many of them insurgents who battled the Marines through most of April -- were supposed to give way to Iraqi police and civil defense units. Instead, the brigade stays outside of town in tents, the police cower in their patrol cars and the civil defense force nominally occupies checkpoints on the city's fringes but exerts no influence over the masked insurgents who operate only a few yards away.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1152393/posts

Houston Chronical June 12, 2004 - Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt told reporters that the city had been generally quiet since Marines lifted the siege in early May. Hard-line Islamic leaders have reasserted their power in Fallujah, 30 miles west of Baghdad. Some were active in defending the city against the Marines and have profited by a perception — both here and elsewhere in Iraq — that the Fallujah fighters defeated a superpower.

I'm thinking we're going to have to let our Marines mount a major assault on Fallujah before June 30th.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Furthermore, the word on the "Iraqi street" is they don't give a rats rump about Abu Ghraib, because they know much worse has taken place there.

[ovrtaxt]

We've got to do something about Fallujah. The cesspool of hatred and violence. Enough of the ceasefire foolishness. Why do we allow this to continue?

Because Reagan's not running this war. Remember? ;)

[ovrtaxt]

ping!