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Iraqis Taking Baath Cleansing Into Own Hands
www.WorldNetdaily.com ^ | 5/20/03 | None

Posted on 05/20/2003 11:05:45 AM PDT by Colofornian

REBUILDING IN THE GULF Iraqis exact revenge on Saddam's regime Former Baath Party officials killed in systematic assassinations

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: May 20, 2003 1:25 p.m. Eastern

© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

Liberated Iraqi citizens are taking matters in their own hands and have begun assassinating former ruling Baath Party officials, reports the Washington Post.

The killings of mid-level government functionaries and Baathist icons, according to the Post, appear to have increased following the U.S. decree last Friday that prohibits senior party officials from holding positions in the top three tiers of Iraq's postwar government.

In one example, the singer Daoud Qais, known for his odes to Hussein, was shot dead on Saturday along with the president of the Iraqi Artists Union.

Ironically, a senior U.S. official described the decree as intended to "drive a stake through [the Baath Party's] heart." Iraqis, who feel the coalition isn't doing enough to punish their tormenters of three decades, appear to be taking the order literally and are using lists looted from Iraq's bombed-out government buildings to pick their targets.

"We want the Americans to kill them, but we don't think they are going to," the Post quotes Muntathar Mohammed, a 40-year-old unemployed Sadr City resident, as saying. "Why can Americans kill anyone they want? Why can't we? I will kill Baathists myself. This is my right."

Citing anecdotal evidence provided by former exile groups and Iraqis familiar with some of the killings, the Post estimates the number killed could reach several hundred in Baghdad alone.

Entifadh Qanbar, a spokesman for the Iraqi National Congress, an exile-led opposition group, said he had heard hundreds of former party officials have been killed in Sadr City since the end of the war.

According to the Post, the Mohsin Mosque is the focal point for Sadr City's Jamila district. The mosque was closed by Saddam Hussein four years ago and reopened the day U.S. troops arrived.

Last Friday a visiting cleric from Najaf incited worshipers to kill Baath Party members who don't leave office voluntarily after a certain a period of time. Two members were subsequently gunned down near where the cleric spoke. Shiite cleric Sayd Hasan Naji, one of the mosque's most influential leaders, now implores worshipers to cease the aggression.

Other revenge killings have been reported in the cities of Najaf, Karbala and Basra in the Shiite-dominated center and south of the country. This was the scene of a bloody rebellion in 1991 that was quashed by the Sunni-controlled Baath government.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: art; assassination; baath; baathparty; inc; iraq; iraqifreedom; iraqis; postwariraq; qais; revenge; vigilantism
In one example, the singer Daoud Qais, known for his odes to Hussein, was shot dead on Saturday along with the president of the Iraqi Artists Union.

Wow. The Dixie Chicks are fortunate we're a bit more tolerant over here, eh? Same w/how we treat our "Hollywood Artists Union", eh?

1 posted on 05/20/2003 11:05:45 AM PDT by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian
Looks like someone is taking my advice...

They've had their Baath, now "powder" their butts and send them to hell!

2 posted on 05/20/2003 11:09:00 AM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: ravingnutter
This was bound to happen. Even happened in France during its last revolution. During mayhem, scores get settled. It's not always a bad thing but is never pretty.
3 posted on 05/20/2003 11:12:20 AM PDT by freedomlover
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To: Colofornian
"In one example, the singer Daoud Qais, known for his odes to Hussein, was shot dead on Saturday along with the president of the Iraqi Artists Union."

Lousy Bellowing Lead to Lead

4 posted on 05/20/2003 11:13:58 AM PDT by azhenfud
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To: Colofornian
" the singer Daoud Qais, known for his odes to Hussein, was shot dead"

What's that you say Madame Dufarge:
"John Tesh"?
"Yanni"?
"and that fukker Zamfir along with his Pan flute"??
5 posted on 05/20/2003 11:19:29 AM PDT by John Beresford Tipton
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To: Colofornian
If some Baathist thug had put a bullet in one of my family I would probably want to give him a visit too.
6 posted on 05/20/2003 11:22:36 AM PDT by freedomlover
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To: Colofornian
A modern day seperating of the wheat from the chaffe?

5.56mm

7 posted on 05/20/2003 11:24:56 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Colofornian
I am glad they are taking responsibility for cleaning thier own house!

Bout time, too!

Tia

8 posted on 05/20/2003 11:26:26 AM PDT by tiamat ("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno World!")
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To: freedomlover
Forget the French Revolution, after being liberated (by us - how ironic) they took the male collaborators out by the hundreds and shot them. The women collaborators were head-shaved and run through gauntlets.
9 posted on 05/20/2003 11:28:44 AM PDT by katana
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To: Colofornian
They need to get a court system going as soon as possible. People need to file their charges and the Iraqi courts should decide the fate of these people. If we allow the average citizen to take revenge, it'll get ugly fast and soon even minor fueds will be settled by killing.
10 posted on 05/20/2003 11:28:45 AM PDT by McGavin999
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To: McGavin999
This uncontrolled killing of Baath party members has to be stopped. I suggest the United Nations take it up next month.
11 posted on 05/20/2003 11:32:33 AM PDT by Dilbert56
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To: McGavin999
No justice no peace. Get those courts working asap.
12 posted on 05/20/2003 11:41:24 AM PDT by winner3000
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To: Colofornian
I will kill Baathists myself. This is my right.

Boy, they picked up on that phrase pretty quick!

13 posted on 05/20/2003 11:46:11 AM PDT by Lunatic Fringe (When news breaks, we fix it!)
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To: Colofornian
>>"In one example, the singer Daoud Qais, known for his odes to Hussein, was shot dead on Saturday along with the president of the Iraqi Artists Union."

Attention Dixie Chix - this is repression.

It gives "looking for the union label" a whole new meaning.
15 posted on 05/20/2003 12:21:05 PM PDT by Only1choice____Freedom (FreeperPost /Sarcasm = on / mode = max)
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To: Colofornian
I will kill Baathists myself. This is my right."

Another man, far wiser than I, once wrote:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."

Note here that the government gets its powers from the individual, not the other way around.

When people "take the law into their own hands", they are actually only reclaiming what was originally theirs, and the government failed in.

16 posted on 05/20/2003 2:25:59 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (...and Freedom tastes of Reality.)
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To: DuncanWaring
deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

The operative word there is just

Governments and govt. officials derive their power & authority from God, Himself (Romans 13:1-2). However, there is such a thing as unjust power (Revelation 13) which can come thru the power of darkness or those he works thru.

If governments operate justly, they derive a confirmation of their God-given authority from God thru the people. If governments operate unjustly, then God still often uses and works thru such entities--but never exclusively...God always deputizes just powers at work in any ungodly culture (e.g. Raoul Wallenberg & Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Nazi Europe, etc.)

17 posted on 05/20/2003 3:25:12 PM PDT by Colofornian
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To: freedomlover
This also happened in post war Germany. It was kept under wraps by the Allied occupational forces but it happened none the less. I'm not saying this is wrong, because I don't think it was. These people (Iraqi, and German alike) had been horribly enslaved by a ruthless, and cruel regime. I believe they had the right to seek "eye for an eye" justice. We Americans just can't even imagine how it would be to stand, helpless, and watch your wife and daughters raped and murdered before your very eyes, or see your friends herded off to death camps to be tortured and murdered.

In my humble opinion this is really the hand of God swooping down to crush evil with justice. Think about it!

I read an article on the net once that was written by an American news man who happened to be on the scene when they finally took Musilini's (sp) body down. He reported that the dictator's scrotum was the size of a football, and was the color of a ripe purple grape. OUCH!!!! If you know anything about medicine, and I do, those wounds had to be inflicked pre-mortum (before actual death). If he was screaming it sounded like Frankie Valli, I can tell you that.

18 posted on 05/20/2003 3:45:03 PM PDT by timydnuc (FR)
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To: timydnuc
bttt
19 posted on 05/20/2003 6:54:25 PM PDT by freedomlover
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