Posted on 07/26/2004 3:46:21 AM PDT by snopercod
July 26 (Bloomberg) -- Gunmen in Baghdad today killed an official in Iraq's Interior Ministry and two of his bodyguards, Reuters reported, citing an unidentified ministry official.
Mussab al-Awadi, who was described as a senior official, was killed as he left his home in the capital, Reuters reported. No further details were given.
(Excerpt) Read more at quote.bloomberg.com ...
Col. Musab al-Awadi, the ministry's deputy chief of tribal affairs, and his guards had just left the house in al-Baya neighborhood when the gunmen drove up and shot them, according to Sabah Kadhim, an Interior Ministry spokesman.(Note the spelling variation)
There have been a couple of car-bombings in Baghdad and Mosul today (civilian deaths and injuries of some US soldiers), and two female Iraqi airport employees were shot to death as they drove to work. The terrorists seem to be feeling quite perky today. Probably coinciding with the DNC.
The Sunnis seem to want a Civil War...they may get it.
Almost as if the terrorists were in cahoots with the DNC, isn't it?
so now Bloomberg is getting into the U.S.-bashing news. How about they instead focus on all the successes we're having over there? I can't tell you how sick I am of the news services focusing on a few random killings instead of the big picture. It is all an effort to hurt the President.
Wasn't this the same guy that denied that there were nuclear weapons found in Iraq last week?
Come off it: not everything is a plot by the left-wing media. A high-ranking Iraqi official was assassinated today; bombs have gone off in Mosul and elsewhere. I guess you'd rather hide from the fact that Iraq is a nasty, dangerous place.
>>Wasn't this the same guy that denied that there were nuclear weapons found in Iraq last week?
That story of "nuclear weapons found in Iraq" last week is
now almost completely buried by the main-stream-media
It's even hard to find the story on Google, except for
some 'hits' at F.R. (but they think we're just a bunch of kooks)
I think GOOGLE, moreso than Yahoo, has deleted most of the
original stories, and KEPT all the discrediting stories.
In the DISCREDITING stories, I can't find ANY that quote
the man's name who denied the nukes. They all just say
"the Iraq Interior Minister" called the story "stupid" or
words to that effect.
They make it sound like there was only ONE interior minister
but they never bothered to get the man's name.
If this is the same guy, he's now dead. (along with the nukes story) How tidy.
dog is the best keeper of names in this stuff.
"deputy chief of tribal affairs"
(a function within the ministry;
this guy headed that, not the
interior ministry itself)
The name sounds familiar...let me see what I can find out.
Wasn't al-Awadi a deputy?
A little more history:
Iraq's interior minister resigns Al-Badran says he is quitting at request of U.S. administrator
Nuri al-Badran
The Associated Press
Updated: 8:37 a.m. ET April 08, 2004
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's interior minister, in charge of security forces, announced his resignation on Thursday at the request of top U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer to maintain the Shiite-Sunni balance in the government.
Nuri al-Badran, a Shiite Muslim, noted that the defense minister is also a Shiite and said he wanted to maintain a balance of Iraq's religious groups on the Cabinet.
He quoted Bremer as telling him, "That will cause an imbalance, and we in the coalition cannot accept that. The solution is for you to step down from your position."
"I consider myself to have resigned," al-Badran told reporters.
The resignation comes as U.S.-led coalition forces are battling an uprising across the south by a Shiite militia led by a radical cleric.
Iraqi police, who are under al-Badran's command, have largely stood aside as militiamen seized control in several cities. It was not immediately known if al-Badran's resignation was connected to the police performance.
And yet some more history:
Iraq's Interior Minister Says There Are Links Between Baghdad Car Bombing And Zarqawi
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's interior minister said there were links between Thursday car bombing outside a Baghdad military recruiting station and Jordanian-born terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
When asked by reporters if he saw al-Zarqawi's hand in the attack, interim Interior Minister Falah Hassan al-Naqib said "I think there is some links."
He also blamed the attack and a spate of other car bombings on foreigners. The U.S. military has counted 20 car bomb attacks so far in June alone.
"We are quite sure and confident they are not Iraqis," al-Naqib said. "And we have very good indications that they came from abroad."
Al-Naqib said that one of al-Zarqawi's aides had been arrested, though he didn't say, who, where or when.
Al-Zarqawi is a Jordanian-born extremist believed to have ties to Osama bin Laden.
The CIA says al-Zarqawi was the black-clad militant who decapitated Nicholas Berg in a videotape posted last month on an Islamic Web site. He also is believed to have been behind numerous suicide bombings in Iraq.
U.S. authorities are offering a $10 million reward for his capture. (AP)
I disagree. Theres 25 million people in Iraq. They're creating a free market democracy. Freedoms unknown for centuries are emerging. The press chooses to focus on random killings by the terrorists. Haven't seen one article on the positive developments since the hand-over.
Are you kidding me? There are less people killed in Iraq per day then in liberal havens such as Detroit or Washington D.C. yet the press chooses to focus on only bad news in Iraq.
Just out of curiosity, why are you jumping to the defense of the liberal media?
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