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.
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?
They've had their Baath, now "powder" their butts and send them to hell!
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Bout time, too!
Tia
Boy, they picked up on that phrase pretty quick!
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.
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.)
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.
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