Posted on 04/27/2006 4:46:29 AM PDT by nuconvert
Gunmen Kill Sister of Iraq's Sunni VP
Thursday , April 27, 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A sister of Iraq's new Sunni Arab vice president was killed in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad on Thursday, police said. She died one day after her brother called for the Sunni-dominated insurgency to be crushed by force.
In southern Iraq, a bomb hit an Italian military convoy at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, killing three soldiers -- two Italians and a Romanian -- and seriously injuring another passenger, Italy's government said. The explosion near an Italian military base was caused by a roadside bomb that hit the convoy in Nasiriyah, a heavily Shiite city 320 kilometers (200 miles) southeast of Baghdad, said local Iraqi government spokesman Haidr Radhi.
More than 2,000 Italian troops are stationed in Nasiriyah, and 27 had been killed before Thursday's attack.
Romanian Cpl. Bogdan Hancu, 28, who died in Thursday's attack, was the first Romanian soldier killed in combat in Iraq, Romania's government said. Romania has 860 troops in Iraq as part of the multinational force.
The violence came as U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld were visiting Baghdad to meet with officials in the new Iraqi government.
Mayson Ahmed Bakir al-Hashimi, 60, whose brother, Tariq al-Hashimi, was appointed by parliament as vice president on Saturday, was killed by unidentified gunmen in a BMW sedan as she was leaving her home at 8 a.m. with her bodyguard in southwestern Baghdad, said police Capt. Jamel Hussein. The bodyguard, Saad Ali, also died in the shooting, Hussein said.
It was the second recent killing in Tariq al-Hashimi's immediate family. On April 13, his brother, Mahmoud al-Hashimi, was shot while driving in a mostly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad.
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Boy-howdy! Them Mooslim holy warriors shure are brave fellers, ain't they?
NOT!!!!
Some people are paying a very high price for their country. Let's hope it is not in vain.
And yet it's we're supposed to follow the political correctness edict and not speak the obvious: that "Allah" is synonymous with Satan, Beelzebub and all the other names of the Beast.
As I said in another thread, we need to develop a Secret Service for Iraq to protect the main political, tribal, and religious leaders and their families.
Not protecting these people worth a damn makes me wonder what people are thinking at the Pentagon. We have lost a large number of our best allies in Iraq because Zarqawi and Sadr killed them without any effort and Washington bemoans that they were killed but still does not produce a service to protect important Iraqis and their families.
That is a very good point. It DOES make you wonder, doesn't it?
There was Indira Gandhi's Secret Service.
You'd have to give each politician and his extended family a bodyguard of his own tribe. Which they've got.
Mrs VS
I thought about this in the past and decided either ignorance or something more sinister was at work. The more sinister one is that basically these Iraqi leaders very often use Blackwater as protection and it is very big money. But, many don't have the money or don't have enough to get enough security for their families. Creating an Iraqi secret service would cut Blackwater's profit in Iraq down massively.
Lets just say I am thinking ignorance is behind their lack of forsight to create an Iraqi SS. But, I am too cynical not to think of other possible factors.
Protecting the leaders is real important but getting the hoodlum leaders off the streets is even more important.
The Iraqis MUST find a way to get him, to infiltrate his circle. We can't do it.
That is no excuse for not trying. One of the worst mistakes of the war IMHO is leaving some of the most important holy sites in Iraq with no real security like the Golden Dome of Samarra.
We should have realized that was an EXTREMELY high value target for Zarqawi and set up the Iraqi security forces to defend it instead of a few pay guards for higher.
Ohmygosh...do you have any idea how large the extended clans and families are in a place like Iraq?
This poor old lady had a bodyguard (also killed). Fortunately he wasn't a US soldier or we would be held to blame. Damned if we do, damned if we don't.
Frankly if the terros want to make their point by killing relatives and clan members of politicians, they will find a way to do so. In cases like this, Iraqi seeking of informants and exactring of revenge will be far swifter and more successful than anything we could dish out.
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