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Revenge killings of members of Saddam's former regime rise
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Posted on 02/25/2005 2:53:11 PM PST by jmc1969

BAGHDAD, Iraq (news - web sites) - Shiite Muslim assassins are killing former members of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s mostly Sunni Muslim regime at will and with impunity in a parallel conflict that some observers fear could snowball into civil war.

The war between Shiite vigilantes and former Baath Party members is seldom investigated and largely overshadowed by the mostly Sunni insurgency. The U.S. military is preoccupied with hunting down suicide bombers and foreign terrorists, and Iraq's new Shiite leaders have little interest in prosecuting those who kill their former oppressors or their enemies in the insurgency.

The killings have intensified since January's Shiite electoral victory, and U.S. and Iraqi officials worry that they could imperil progress toward a unified, democratic Iraq.

"It's the beginning, and we could go down the slippery slope very quickly," said Sabah Kadhim, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry. "We've been so concerned with removing terrorists and Islamists that this other situation has reared its ugly head. Both sides are sharpening their knives."

Since the Jan. 30 elections, Shiite militants have stepped up their campaign to exact street justice from men who were part of the regime that oppressed and massacred members of their sect for decades. While Shiite politicians turn a blind eye, assassins are working their way through a hit list of Saddam's former security and intelligence personnel, according to Iraqi authorities, Sunni politicians and interviews with the families of those who've been targeted.

(Excerpt) Read more at story.news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: baathparty; goesroundcomesround; haditcoming; iraq; livebythesword; paybacksabitch; revenge; saddam
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To: jmc1969; Poohbah; Dog; veronica

Can you say, "Los Pepes"?


41 posted on 02/25/2005 3:58:19 PM PST by hchutch (A pro-artificial turf, pro-designated hitter baseball fan.)
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To: hchutch

Yep.


42 posted on 02/25/2005 4:00:15 PM PST by Dog (FReepers-- - -- --- We are a battery of 80,000 bullsh*t-seeking missiles.)
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To: MplsSteve

Feared? Try "hoped". It'll save us a lot of time and money hunting these guys down, imprisoning them, giving them a fair trial (which they don't deserve), and executing their punishment. The only civil war in Iraq I fear is one between the Kurds and the Shiites, something that doesn't appear too likely at the moment. Anyone who wants to kick the Sunni's butts is welcome to, in my book. The payback needs to be severe enough to permanently discourage the Sunnis from their jihadist/totalitarian activities. If there's not a Sunni left in Iraq, I won't shed a tear.


43 posted on 02/25/2005 4:04:17 PM PST by thoughtomator (If Islam is a religion, so is Liberal!)
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To: hchutch

Payback is a female canine, ain't it?


44 posted on 02/25/2005 4:05:45 PM PST by Poohbah ("Hee Haw" was supposed to be a television show, not a political movement.)
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To: jmc1969

This is great and necessary. Who do you think makes up the ranks of the "insurgents".


45 posted on 02/25/2005 4:07:37 PM PST by FreedomSurge
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To: Poohbah

Huh? Sounds like a UN problem to me...let's have Kofi and his buddies get right on this ok? After all, it's not as though they're putting panties over someone's head or anything right? (slight sarcasm here)...


46 posted on 02/25/2005 4:12:31 PM PST by princess leah (\)
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To: jmc1969
Iraq's new Shiite leaders have little interest in prosecuting those who kill their former oppressors or their enemies in the insurgency.

Sounds good to me, since it doesn't seem to be indiscriminate.

Even Yahoo couldn't entirely bury the qualifier.

I think they are talking about the villagers who shot the shiite out of the Sunnis that came to punish them for voting a couple weeks ago, among others. Maybe also the ones who badly roughed up the car bomber they caught in the act & kept from exploding. This is a GOOD thing, IM(not-so)HO

47 posted on 02/25/2005 4:17:28 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (The world needs more horses, and fewer Jackasses!)
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To: jmc1969
Baath Communist Party

They always seem to skip that middle thingy.

48 posted on 02/25/2005 4:23:52 PM PST by FreedomFarmer (Socialism is not an ideology, it is a disease. Eliminate the vectors.)
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To: jmc1969

Payback is a beiotch.


49 posted on 02/25/2005 4:24:56 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: jmc1969

Sort of reminds me of Lincoln's use of the phrase, "the better angels of our nature"... but then again, I don't think the Muslims believe in angels...just virgins they'll never meet here on earth...


50 posted on 02/25/2005 4:43:38 PM PST by FDNYRHEROES (Make welfare as hard to get as a building permit)
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To: jmc1969
As long as these revenge attacks are partially in response to the current bombings, and not just over old grudges, I think they could play a positive role. They add to the Sunni's cost of waging the insurgency.

If the revenge attacks would happen even if the Sunnis weren't being terrorists, they would be bad (because it would encourage Sunnis to become terrorists)

51 posted on 02/25/2005 4:48:05 PM PST by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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To: nuconvert
Horsefeathers. The bad guys have been fighting a civil war continually for almost 2 years now. Others are just begining to shoot back, that is all. When the thugs who started all of this have a their belly filled it will be a victory. The important thing is not to avoid war - there is a war - but to win it.
52 posted on 02/25/2005 4:52:11 PM PST by JasonC
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To: NorCalRepub

"Just make sure not to kill any innocents in it and I don't see a problem......these guys are the ones using IED's and the like anyway "

Exactly. Sounds like the true "Iraqi resistance" is being heard from at last.


53 posted on 02/25/2005 5:24:40 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: jmc1969

It was bound to happen. The shiites feel safe enough to punish Saddams followers now. It'll go on for some time I'm sure.


54 posted on 02/25/2005 6:15:05 PM PST by b4its2late (This is like deja vu all over again.)
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To: MplsSteve
We should be taking advantage of this group by using them to hunt down the Bathist helping the terrorist.Who knows maybe we are.If you want to get sick read some of the responses to the article on Yahoo.
55 posted on 02/25/2005 6:30:48 PM PST by rdcorso (We Are A Nation Fighting Against The Deadly Disease Of Liberalism)
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To: hinckley buzzard
The Sunnis can hardly develop much sympathy from anyone...
Surely they didn't expect to behave like monsters, and be treated kindly??

Revenge is a dish most efficiently served through the barrel of a gun..

Semper Fi
56 posted on 02/26/2005 1:00:12 AM PST by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: river rat

Thing is, the shiites are just as monsterous, or moreso, than the sunnis.

This is just evil killing evil.

There's no upside to this at all. Neither shiite or sunni is any 'friend' to the civilized world in any possible way.


57 posted on 02/26/2005 1:02:03 AM PST by SigPro2340
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To: jmc1969

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of guys.


58 posted on 02/26/2005 1:05:31 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: SigPro2340

Let's see.....
We've got Islamic murderer, murdering Islamic murderer..
And the down side is?

I'd rather they practiced their murderous disposition on each other -- rather than on INNOCENT bystanders...

Perhaps after they have bled each other white - they will be ready to build a civilized society...

Semper Fi


59 posted on 02/26/2005 9:04:11 AM PST by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: vishnu6
Actually I am a person who did not fear this at all>

Me too. I only hope that they don't plug in the plastic shredder and limit their revenge killings to deserving men who were known to participate in the apartheid during Saddam's regime.

BTW, that must mean that all the photos we see of guyz arrested and in plastic handcuffs are dealt with extreme prejudice...if you know what I mean.

60 posted on 02/26/2005 9:10:25 AM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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