Ten Sunni students seized, dozens killed as Iraq PM talks peace

Barrett808

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Mon Jun-26-06 02:13 PM
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Ten Sunni students seized, dozens killed as Iraq PM talks peace

Ten Sunni students seized, dozens killed as Iraq PM talks peace
by Ammar Karim

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Ten Sunni Arab students have been kidnapped in Baghdad and at least 32 people killed across Iraq one day after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki unveiled a peace plan aimed at easing the violence.

Moscow meanwhile confirmed the killing of four of its Baghdad embassy employees following an Internet statement by their kidnappers, an Al-Qaeda-led insurgent grouping, that they had been executed.

In the fourth incident of mass abductions this month, the students were kidnapped by gunmen who arrived in five sports utility vehicles with tinted windows and stormed into a hostel on Oqba bin Nafaa square in the capital's Karradah district, security officials said.

One official said they were singled out because they were Sunni Arabs.

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KurtNYC

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Mon Jun-26-06 02:38 PM
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1. This is a civil war - a religiously-defined civil war

Shiite versus Sunni. Democracy is pretty much impossible to create during a civil war and it is costing us $300-million a week to "stay the course" there. We might as well be trying to dry up Niagra Falls with a napkin.

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LSparkle

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Mon Jun-26-06 03:29 PM
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2. Agreed -- that's the only "war" going on in Iraq; we are occupiers

caught in the middle of it, not fighting on either side.

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Just Me

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Mon Jun-26-06 04:01 PM
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5. Funding both sides. Remember the Iraq/Iran war intentionally,...

,...oh, nevermind.

Nevermind.

The theory of the powers-that-be is instigating chaos to grab control. I hate their theory, their behavior, their manipulation and deliverance of unecessary death and destruction because, they are making money out the a$$ doing it. Evil people.

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DesertRat

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Mon Jun-26-06 03:51 PM
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3. Bombings and kidnappings beseige Iraq after Maliki peace plan

Edited on Mon Jun-26-06 03:58 PM by DesertRat

Why can't they secure "the land of progress" with 70,000 troops and over a billion dollars a week?
Bush went to Iraq and told us that we've "turned the corner" in a "Free Iraq"! :eyes:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060626/wl_afp/iraq_060626201115

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Just Me

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Mon Jun-26-06 03:57 PM
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4. Those "insurgents" sure seem well-funded.

Where do they get all that money? OH, yeah,....there's all kinds of unaccounted U.S. billions in Iraq.

We have KILLED a whole country.

BE PROUD, FEEL FREE, HEAR DEMOCRACY RING!!! :cry:

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