Posted on 12/17/2008 8:56:15 PM PST by james500
Up to 35 officials in the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior ranking as high as general have been arrested over the past three days with some of them accused of quietly working to reconstitute Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party, according to senior security officials in Baghdad.
The arrests, confirmed by officials from the Ministries of the Interior and National Security as well as the prime minister’s office, included four generals, one of whom, Gen. Ahmed Abu Raqeef, is the ministry’s director of internal affairs. The officials also said that the arrests had come at the hand of an elite counterterrorism force that reports directly to the office of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.
The involvement of the counterterrorism unit speaks to the seriousness of the accusations, and several officials from the Ministries of the Interior and National Security said that some of those arrested were in the early stages of planning a coup.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Beautiful.
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It's the only way to be sure.
that explains the shoe.
heads up
Way to go Iraq. They thwarted the attempt of Hussein-minions to coup. We failed in the US.
35 Iraqi officials arrested over coup plot: report
Reuters | December 18, 2008 | Joanne Allen
Posted on 12/17/2008 10:33:19 PM PST by smokingfrog
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150686/posts
I worked with the Ministry of Interior from March '07 through April '08 on the transition mission...I want to see some names. I might know some of the scum who was involved in this. While most of the people I worked with there were wonderful, there were some I knew were Mehdi Army scum and gave me the creeps.
I'm eager to catch the details on this one.
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