Complied by Rob Moll | posted 12/15/2003
In Chaldean communities near Detroit and San Diego news of Saddam Hussein's capture spread quickly. "I spoke with my sister in Iraq first thing, and she said the gunfire I heard in the background were coming from the people who are happy," Kinaya, a deacon at Mother of God Chaldean Catholic Church in Southfield, Michigan, told The Detroit Free Press. "The Iraqi people are a democratic people who are now celebrating their freedom."
The Detroit area is home to about 100,000 Chaldean Christians, who saw Saddam's capture as a fitting gift as the church enters the Christmas season. "This is a great Christmas present," said Joseph Kassab, director of the Michigan chapter of the Chaldean National Congress," according to The Detroit News. An Associated Press story, which ran in several California papers reported on Chaldean reactions there. "It's a great joy for all the Iraqi people on this day, especially for Christians," said Noel Gorgis, pastor of St. Paul Assyrian Chaldean Catholic Church in North Hollywood, which has a large Iraqi congregation. "We prepare ourselves for joy on Christmas, and now that joy is complete."
I knew this article was hogwash. I remembered too many Iraqi's dancing in the street up there in michigan. They were thrilled that saddam was taken out.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/150/12.0.html
Link to other story above
I think the article is hogwash too.
So they found a couple of uninformed and misled Iraqis.
Kansas City Star (October 13, 2004)
One might expect to see a Baghdad city councilman at the United Nations, but in Raytown? That's exactly where Councilman Abid Khalid and an Iraqi doctor, Hayder Abdulkarim, were last week, meeting with Raytown city leaders and *spreading news of progress in their country.
http://www.untoldiraq.org/