Posted on 09/14/2008 7:36:49 AM PDT by knighthawk
The Iraqi parliament lifted the immunity of Sunni MP Mithal Alusi on Sunday for visiting Israel last week to attend an international conference on terrorism. Parliament voted to ban Alusi from travelling outside Iraq or attending its sessions, and to ask prosecutors to press charges against him for visiting Tel Aviv.
The action against Alusi, the sole member of his own parliamentary faction, was agreed by acclamation.
The MP's trip to Israel last week was his second since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime. He previously visited Israel in September 2004.
During his last week's visit, Alusi spoke at the Herzliya Institute for Policy and Strategy near Tel Aviv where, according to Shiite MP Ali al-Adeeb, he urged support for Israel. According to AFP, Alusi said his visit to Israel was not an official visit.
"I did not represent Iraq. It was a personal visit following an invitation," Alusi told parliament.
According to Iraqi press reports, in his address to the Herzliya Institute, Alusi called for greater cooperation against Iran. "Iran today is the centre for disaster in the region. The majority of Iraqi people do not support the Tehran regime," he was quoted as saying.
"We should cooperate with Israel in gathering intelligence, along with Turkey, Kuwait and the United States, to guarantee an exchange of information in order to to confront terrorism together."
Alusi has survived several assassination attempts in recent years. Two sons and a bodyguard were killed in one attempt on his life in February 2005.
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Brave man, but probably not long for this world.
The nail that sticks up will feel the hammer’s blow.
As great a job as our military has done in Iraq, we will only learn what we have really created after our military no longer has a major presence, and the Iraqis are on their own.
Anyone’s guess how it will go, and what the government and nation will look like after a few years.
The need for tens of thousands of Iraqis (other than the persecuted Christians) to be accepted into the US is a not a sign of peace and harmony among the various groups there.
So, we pissed away hundreds of billions of dollars and shed countless gallons of American blood so anti-semitism could gain a legal toehold in Baghdad??
Beam me up, Scotty. There's no intelligent life down here.
So this is what we sacrificed American lives for? Ann Coulter was right; we should have converted most of these people to Christianity and killed the rest.
“So, we pissed away hundreds of billions of dollars and shed countless gallons of American blood so anti-semitism could gain a legal toehold in Baghdad??”
I think it’s always been there. Very soon after Baghdad fell in 2003, there was public opinion survey of Iraqis. Most answers were very encouraging from an American point of of view. Then there was a question that asked, in so many words: Was Saddam justified in firing Scud missiles at Israel during the Gulf War? More than 80% answer Yes.
thoughts go out to every soldier that died giving these scum liberty
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