Posted on 06/29/2008 7:41:27 PM PDT by LibWhacker
JANAJA, Iraq — Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki grew up in this village of lemon and date orchards about half an hour from the southern Shiite Muslim holy city of Karbala . He attended school in the area, according to his official biography, and members of his extended family keep elegant villas here.
Maliki is Janaja's most famous son, but he's been conspicuously silent in the aftermath of an apparent covert coalition raid Friday morning -- finally acknowledged Sunday by the U.S. military -- that killed one of his relatives and terrified the villagers, many of whom share the premier's tribal last name and belong to his Dawa Party . Other senior Iraqi officials have not kept mum: They've demanded an investigation and say the incident could affect negotiations for a long-term U.S.-Iraqi security pact.
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Hm. Was it Iraqi forces and US forces? Who was responsible?
Ah. Read further down. They keep saying things like “Special Forces operated “almost” independently...”
Sounds like an accident. Bad luck indeed.
Definitely an accident.
We need to get out of this wretched country ASAP.
By all means .. bring them here.
thanks.Good response.
this is an awful consequence of war. I really also feel bad if this was special ops...but one wonders, the special ops are very good. Was this a set up by the bad guys?
Shiite happens.
Don't believe a word of it.
“(The troops) raided this room, the guard room, and detained the guards, including Ali, who’d memorized a few English words and tried to tell them, ‘I’m police. I’m a Maliki guard,’” Abdulhussein said. “They tied the hands of the three guards and took Ali to the room. Ten minutes later, they heard gunfire. The American forces killed Ali.”
Sounds like BS to me.
by Qassim Zein and Hannah Allam? Sound like terrorists to me.
I am thinking of the soldiers, only the soldiers. Deal with the problem, then leave. If the problem returns, deal with it, then leave. Whack a mole.
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