Posted on 01/19/2007 8:20:10 AM PST by TexKat
CAIRO, Egypt Militants in Iraq with links to al-Qaida are claiming responsibility for an attack on a convoy that killed an American democracy worker.
Contractors from Hungary, Croatia and Iraq also died in the ambush, along with the 28-year-old Ohio woman. The three-vehicle convoy was part of a mission for the National Democratic Institute, which gives advice on voter outreach.
Sunni insurgents linked to al-Qaida have claimed responsibility on a Web site. A statement praising the deadly attack came from a group considered to be a branch of al-Qaida in Iraq.
U-S officials could not verify the Internet statement.
In this undated photo provided by The National Democratic Institute, Andrea Parhamovich of Perry, Ohio, is shown. An al-Qaida-linked coalition of Iraqi Sunni insurgents claimed responsibility Thursday for an attack on a convoy of a Western democracy institute that killed the American woman along with three security contractors in Baghdad. (AP Photo/The National Democratic Institute)
``Praise be to God, in an attack with light and medium weapons and RPG's in the Yarmouk area in Baghdad on Jan. 17, two SUVs belonging to the Zionist Mossad were destroyed and a third one was severely damaged,'' said a statement posted Thursday on an Islamic Web site.
The statement was signed by the spokesman of the ``Islamic state in Iraq,'' the so-called Islamic government that al-Qaida in Iraq and several other Iraqi Sunni Arab insurgent groups declared earlier last year. The statement was posted on a Web forum where Sunni insurgents often release messages.
A U.S. official said that the statement's authenticity could not be determined.
Its purported author - Islamic state in Iraq - is considered al-Qaida in Iraq's political arm, said the official, who did not want to be identified because of the information's sensitivity.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6355729,00.html
http://cbs2chicago.com/nationalwire/Iraq-Convoy-Profile_a_a_-----/resources_news_html
Ohio woman killed promoting democracy in Iraq wanted to make a difference, her family says
(actually, an AP story)
The National Democratic Institute are a bunch of trendy-lefties headed up by none other than Madeline K. Albright. This bright, young, naive lady was associated with a number of liberal endeavors, including Air(head) America.
Thus are the tragic consequences of thinking you can deal with the Islamist enemy as a rational actor.
Tragic. RIP
Thanks for the link leadpenny.
The jihad against Christians continues.
She should have minded her own business and Bush should have unleashed the dogs years ago.
Seems as though she was minding her own business. It's what she chose to do. As for the dogs of war, the time for that was years ago.
"She is still dead."
Yep, and you seem to be celebrating that. Nice.
I see it as the course of natural selection. You need personal attacks to make your point?
I suppose you see our military casualties "as a course of natural selection" also. They are volunteers and doing what they want to do. Americans serve their country in many different ways.
As far as my post being a personal attack, perceptions are everything.
I think you used the word "you". You are a bonehead.
You lost an argument to a bonehead.
I won't tell anyone.
Too bad, but it should be a warning to ALL Americans, this is the result they will undergo if the terrorist threat from the Middle East is NOT eliminated.
Anti-American, anti-Shiite Iraqi insurgency television channel Al-Zawraa airs a video tape for Islamic and insurgent groups' attacks, during its transmission seen on a TV screen in Cairo, Egypt Friday, Jan. 19, 2007. Washington and Baghdad are pressuring Egypt to remove from its government satellite an Iraqi TV station that supports Sunni Arab insurgents, airing a steady stream of footage of attacks on U.S. and Iraqi troops and denunciations of Iraq's Shiite leadership. So far, Egypt has refused. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
Anti-American, anti-Shiite Iraqi insurgency television channel Al-Zawraa airs footage of blindfolded young men with a a title reading 'A group of youngsters kidnapped by Muqtada al-Sadr from their houses, to be burnt alive in the street ' during its transmission seen on a TV screen in Cairo, Egypt Friday, Jan. 19, 2007. Washington and Baghdad are pressuring Egypt to remove from its government satellite an Iraqi TV station that supports Sunni Arab insurgents, airing a steady stream of footage of attacks on U.S. and Iraqi troops and denunciations of Iraq's Shiite leadership. So far, Egypt has refused. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
AP - Fri Jan 19, 2:02 PM ET Anti-U.S. President George W. Bush is seen on a TV screen during the transmission of American, anti-Shiite Iraqi insurgency television channel Al-Zawraa, in Cairo, Egypt Friday, Jan. 19, 2007. Washington and Baghdad are pressuring Egypt to remove from its government satellite an Iraqi TV station that supports Sunni Arab insurgents, airing a steady stream of footage of attacks on U.S. and Iraqi troops and denunciations of Iraq's Shiite leadership. So far, Egypt has refused. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070119/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_convoy_profile
American killed in Iraq was set to marry
By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer
33 minutes ago
Meet force with force. Eliminate the opposition at home and abroad.
The contractors were security. The woman was a democracy worker. Where's the jihad against Christians?
Probably find that some high up Egyptian officials have stock in the company that broadcasts the stuff and don't want to lose money.
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