The FReeper Foxhole Profiles General Jonathan Wainwright - Apr 19th, 2004

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Good morning feather.

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Good morning PE. I think on Flag Day this June we should just post as many different pictures we have of our flag, wouldn't that be a pretty thread.

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Good morning Valin.

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Thanks Mayor. It is something the whole country should be celebrating.

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Good morning sw!

[Tax-chick]

Great story! I've seen some of the survivors of Bataan on the History Channel, and they are just amazing. All our WW2 vets are amazing, including my great-uncle Howard McConnell (hero name-dropping!) who won't say much about his 3 years in the Pacific!

Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio has a little museum with a large collection of POW's letters and diaries from the Pacific War. It's a great place to spend a day *without* your kids, 'cause they get bored while you're reading!

Another great visit is the Museum of the Pacific War, in the Nimitz Hotel in Fredericksburg, TX.

I could go on, but suddenly all my kids are fighting over lunch :-(.

[Valin]

Yes it is!
And now for todays ray of hope.

How Iraqi judge cornered Sadr
The Australian 4/17/04 Peter Wilson


Posted on 04/19/2004 9:49:02 AM CDT by Valin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1120405/posts

Journalist of the Year Peter Wilson is the first reporter to obtain a brief charging Moqtada al-Sadr with killing a pro-Western rival


THE radical young cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is today holed up in Iraq's sacred city of Najaf, trying to negotiate a face-saving compromise after failing to ignite a general uprising among the nation's Shi'ite Muslim majority.
But Sadr's future does not rest with the clerics and other go-betweens who are hoping to avert a bloody showdown between his 1000-strong militia and the 2500 US troops ringing Najaf.
The fate of Sadr - the angry 30-year-old who last week pledged to destroy the coalition's campaign in Iraq - rests with a legal brief that was carefully compiled over the past year by a provincial Iraqi judge.
It is this brief that led to an arrest warrant being issued for Sadr and some of his supporters, provoking his Mahdi Army to take control of several southern towns last week, raising the deadly possibility of a united insurgency by Shi'ite and Sunni hardliners until more moderate Shi'ite leaders disowned him.

A detailed summary of the case against Sadr, which has been obtained by The Weekend Australian, shows that the prosecuting judge, Raid Juhy, has laid a much wider range of charges against the radical cleric than was previously known.
Prosecutors had announced that Sadr was charged with the murder last year of rival cleric Abdul Majeed al-Khoei, the alleged theft of religious funds from several mosques, and the murder by his guards of an Iraqi family.
But Sadr has also been charged with ordering several other murders, setting up illegal courts and prisons, inciting his followers to violence, and other breaches of the Iraqi penal code.


The barrage of charges and evidence amassed by Juhy, a Najaf-based judge, means that even if Sadr can distance himself from the killing of Khoei, he will still face serious problems in court.
The brief shows that the judge, who is responsible under Iraqi law for overseeing the gathering of evidence, has found eyewitnesses to back the charges that Sadr personally authorised the murder of Khoei, a moderate rival.

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It is those two survivors of the fight that the judge has flown to London to interview.
According to Kelly, 12 of Sadr's followers -- the stabbers and shooters -- were arrested soon after the killings, and warrants were issued in August for Sadr and several of his more senior followers.
Attempts to arrest those followers, and the closure of Sadr's newspaper for inciting violence, were met by his call for all Shi'ites to rise against the coalition forces.


When there was no general uprising, Sadr said through intermediaries he was willing to stand trial but only after the coalition hands power over to Iraqis on June 30.
"We have done no deals along those lines," Kelly says. "The only thing we would do is guarantee his safety, a fair trial and the provision of a defence lawyer if he needs one."


Sadr's insistence that he be charged after the June 30 handover carries a particular danger for him.
The coalition authorities last year struck down Iraq's death penalty, meaning he would not risk execution if his case began before June 30, but Iraqi officials are widely expected to restore the death penalty once they regain sovereignty.

[SAMWolf]

Good Morning stand watie.

I see some people just can't honor Southern heroes and let them come home in peace on the CSS HUNLEY thread.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks Valin. I have the recording and it always brings a tear to the eye.

[SAMWolf]

The story of Bataan and the treatment of our soldiers afterwards is a hard one to read and not get emotional about.

[Professional Engineer]

1903 Eliot Ness untouchable (Prohibition Agent for Department of Treasury-Chicago, Untouchables)

During Prohibition, my great-grandad spent several months in Canada, to evade Ness and the boys. Seems he was involved in running liquor in souped up Model-A Fords accross the border.

My grandpa was so ashamed of this, he NEVER spoke of it. He also never touched a drop of alcohol. On her death bed, my grandma, his wife, told my dad the whole story. Very cool family story.

[Professional Engineer]

1587 Sir Frances Drake sails into Cadiz Spain & sinks Spanish fleet

NavalSpankenTruppen!

1982 Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut

Ride Sally, Ride!

1982 Guinon Bluford announced as 1st black astronaut

[Professional Engineer]

I've heard an MP3 of that ballad, very moving.

[Professional Engineer]

I think on Flag Day this June we should just post as many different pictures we have of our flag, wouldn't that be a pretty thread.

Good idea! I'll start trying to keep track of these now.

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NavalSpankenTruppen!

LOL.

Running from Ness! Neat family history;, I guess he never got caught. :-)

[SAMWolf]

IMHO, Prohibition was one of the most stupid laws passed in this Country, it was the cause of more crime/gang wars than anything else before the War on Drugs.

See what a bunch of do-gooders can do when they try to legislate "I don't like it so no one else can do it" laws.

[stand watie]

VERY TRUE!

just because one is a freeper, that alone doesn't make them either smart OR polite.<P.free dixie,sw

[GATOR NAVY]

Here's an interesting link that goes deeper into some of what I pointed out. This guy is a little harsh in some cases (I agree with you MacArthur was ordered to leave, he says he ran).

JAPAN ATTACKS THE PHILIPPINES, 1941- 42

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Thanks Gator Navy.

[Humal]

What an amazing story; what an amazing man. This is another one of your posts I have saved. I have told you before, and I sincerely mean it, you do a lot to preserve our history. Have you ever considered having your posts published in book form?