Posted on 03/14/2006 11:00:37 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraqi interior minister said Tuesday that authorities had foiled an al-Qaida plot that would have put hundreds of its men at critical guard posts around Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, home to the U.S. and other foreign embassies as well as the Iraqi government.
A senior Defense Ministry official said the 421 al-Qaida fighters were actually recruited to storm the U.S. and British embassies and take hostages. Several ranking Defense Ministry officials have been jailed in the plot, the official said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information.
Interior Minister Bayan Jabr, in an interview with The Associated Press, said the 421 al-Qaida recruits were one bureaucrat's signature away from acceptance into an Iraqi army battalion whose job is to control the gates and main squares in the Green Zone. The plot was discovered three weeks ago.
"You can imagine what could happen to a minister or an ambassador while passing through these gates when those terrorists are there," Jabr said in the interview conducted at his office inside the Green Zone — a 2-square-mile hunk of prime real estate on the west bank of the Tigris River. The area is a maze of concrete blast walls, concertina wire and checkpoints.
The Defense Ministry official said the plot was uncovered by the military intelligence and the General Intelligence department that works under the government.
The Green Zone has been attacked in the past with mortar rounds and rockets. A number of car bombs driven by suicide attackers have been detonated in the past two years at the entrances, killing scores of people.
On Oct. 14, 2004, two al-Qaida members carried out a suicide attack inside the zone, hitting a market and a cafe. Six people were killed, including four Americans, and 20 people were
They were tried and sentanced likely in Sadr's new sharia court according to Omar.
May be a bogus story planted by Interior.
Not a good thing, but understandable.
"The overstressed network is producing less than half the electricity needed to meet Iraq's exploding demand."
The story doesn't match the headline.
So... Time to bring out the panties and the cameras if they ever try a raid like this on the Green Zone... Have big sweaty Marines with big, stinky, sweaty, bare feet (preferrably all having a bad case of athlete's foot) standing around posing, using defeated muzzie faces for foot stools.
I kind of thought it was a bad news headline but a somewhat goodnews story!
If and I do say if you are right it would be extremely bad news because it would mean Sadr and Harkim are kicking out high level Defense Ministry officals and filling them up with their goons.
Yikes! That would have been a bad year.
That's a bunch of twisting and distoring as well. (And did I NEED to be reminded of the 100+ temperatures coming as early as May? LOL)
Yes, the power still glitches off in Baghdad a few times a day, but outputs are actually better now than before the war. It's just that Baghdad got all the power back then.
The electrical grid is improving right along with everything else. Once AQ and the Iranians stop all their cr@p, they can settle down and get it fixed for good.
Bump!
Bttt
Electricity Hits Three-Year Low in Iraq ~ Bad News Headline/ Good News Story....
Sort of illustrates the mindset of the MSM!!!
< /sarc>
This was the "big bang" we were expecting.
Yep. In a nutshell.
I watch CNN (because it's the only English-speaking news channel I can get in my room) and get infuriated with Anish Ramen (or whatever his name is) and his lying, twisted reports he gives about things I see on a daily basis.
CNN's HQ is very close to where I am. I'm often tempted to go out on my balcony and yell "Stop your outright lying, you leftist scumbg!" while he's doing his little standup.
I'm going to bed now. I hope the terrorists don't come crashing through the gates while I'm asleep.
(Hey, you have to be somewhat cavalier about these things around here...LOL)
Have a good sleep, and a safe night.
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