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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 06:19 AM
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Iraq's Allawi (US appointed PM) Welcomes U.S. Strike That Killed 22
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040620/ts_nm/iraq_dc&cid=564&ncid=1480

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq (news - web sites)'s prime minister on Sunday defended a U.S. air strike that killed 22 people in Falluja, but Iraqi officers in the town said the dead included women and children rather than foreign Muslim militants.



"We know that a house which had been used by terrorists had been hit. We welcome this hit on terrorists anywhere in Iraq," interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi told a news conference.


He said the U.S. military had informed the government before carrying out Saturday's air strike on what it said was a safe house used by militants led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian described by the Americans as al Qaeda's leader in Iraq.


However, Falluja's police chief and a senior officer in the Falluja Brigade in charge of security in the fiercely anti-U.S. town denied that foreign fighters had operated from the house.

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dudeness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 06:28 AM
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1. dead man walking..
n/t
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 06:31 AM
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2. exactly...
Mr. puppetman just sealed his fate....
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 08:33 PM
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20. I give him six weeks
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WillParkinson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 06:32 AM
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3. Thank goodness!
I'm so glad that the US has put a strong leader in Iraq. One who is willing to see things OUR way while turning his eyes away from his own people.

<Sigh>
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 06:51 AM
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4. yes he is a dead man walking
i wonder if anyone is taking bets on how long he will live??
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 08:17 PM
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19. He has 250 Blackwater mercenaries protecting his sorry ass
The Resistance will get this puppet. Its only a matter of time.
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 08:35 PM
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21. Has he re-hired a dozen Saddam doubles yet?
Suitably altered by a CIA plastic surgeon to duplicate the new dictator?

Somehow I don't think this puppet is going to be around for next year's show.
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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 07:06 AM
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5. That statement is sure to win Allawi...
friends and influence people--in the US.

In Iraq, I'm less sure.
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teryang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 07:38 AM
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6. The American appointed prime minister relies on...
...American intelligence to tell him what is going on in his (sic) country?

<He said the U.S. military had informed the government before carrying out Saturday's air strike on what it said was a safe house used by militants led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian described by the Americans as al Qaeda's leader in Iraq. >

And he allows Americans to use Israeli strike tactics against a residential neighborhood?

This new government is supposed to be an improvement?
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 08:12 AM
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11. I noticed from the day he was appointed...
He obediently used the term "terrorists" to describe the Iraq resistance and continues to daily. Good little puppetboy.
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 07:43 AM
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7. Allawi is a CIA dirtbag and we are the war criminals
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/EA2EC375-43E7-43B7-80E9-3C1E2CD...

<snip>


Top Iraqi security officials in the city of Falluja have dismissed US claims that a house destroyed by a deadly American air strike was used by al-Qaida fighters.

Brigadier Nuri Abudi, a member of the Falluja Brigade entrusted by the US occupation with imposing security in the city, said evidence showed the destroyed building was the home of an extended Iraqi family.

"We inspected the damage, we looked through the bodies of the women and children and elderly. This was a family," he said on Sunday.

"There is no sign of foreigners having lived in the house. Zarqawi and his men have no presence in Falluja," he said, referring to Abu Mussab Zarqawi.
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 07:50 AM
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8. Jeez! With this one statement, he'll lose the support of the Iraqi people
However, Falluja's police chief and a senior officer in the Falluja Brigade in charge of security in the fiercely anti-U.S. town denied that foreign fighters had operated from the house.

Falluja's police and military authorities, in the eyes of the Iraqi people, are the only legitimate Sunni authorites in all of Iraq, and if they say there were no insurgents among the dead, then anything Allawi says to the contrary is going to undermine any native support he has left.

Dumbass!
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 09:11 AM
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12. hmmm independant Iraqis huh?
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pinniped Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 08:00 AM
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9. Somewhere in Iraq there is a "Dead Pool" and his name...
is most certainly on it.
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Zech Marquis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 08:02 AM
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10. what would you like on your tombstone sir?
Edited on Sun Jun-20-04 08:02 AM by Zech Marquis
no joke intended, becasue he's just signed his own death cetificate :scared:
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 10:21 AM
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13. I think I'm being generous here
but I give this guy about 4 months before he is driven from office.
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daleo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 06:43 PM
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14. The father of his country
"Yes, yes kill more of my people."
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Ripley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 06:45 PM
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15. So any building that is considered "once used by terrorists"
is fair game for blowing up? Well, doesn't that open the door for any place to be blown up at any time. Doesn't matter if the bad guys are there,,,,They were there last week!
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Vladimir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 06:49 PM
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16. Oh, to be a collaborator! n/t
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 07:25 PM
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17. Allawi support from Iraqis?
Maybe he thinks that he will be elected PM in Jan. '05? Those elections will be rigged because the US Govt. cannot allow any elected officials that are not puppets of the US.

I still predict as a I have for months now that there will be a mass Uprising in Iraq in July against the Occupation and this "new" Govt. Now that the Kurds have once again been stabbed in the back by another US govt. July 4th would be an apt date. I predict that they will join in the mass Uprising.
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Aidoneus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 08:14 PM
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18. well, it's not a schoolbus or a movie theatre
like the massacre's `Alawi was responsible for in the last few years, but of course the Iraqi Petain will approve. He can do nothing but read the script his masters put in front of him.
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 08:44 PM
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22. Is Allawi Arabic for Diem? or is it Thieu?
The only way this Iraqi quisling can stay in power is backed by American Bush neocon arms. That is why he supports a foreign army for Iraq's his personal security and that is why it does not bother him to see his own countrymen slaughtered.
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mike1963 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 08:52 PM
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23. personal security?...sure, but d'ya think there might be a bank account
in Switzerland or the Caymans involved as well?......
:eyes:
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Aidoneus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 09:13 PM
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25. Diem or Petain
the translation is a little tricky.. means basically the same, I guess.
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Geo55 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 09:00 PM
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24. It goes something like this...
U.S. Military - " We need to take out a building full of terrorists , but it's surrounded by innocent townspeople.

Allawi - I need a new Cadillac Envoy.

U.S. Military - No problem.

Allawi - Great ! ....have fun boys.
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LittleApple81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 11:57 PM
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26. Allawi IS A MURDERER, but he is our MURDERER.
Iyad Allawi, OUR "NEW, IMPROVED, CHOCOLATY MAN IN IRAQ"

Doesn't this remind you of Saddam and Rumsfeld being kissy, kissy years ago and sharing their poison toys?

During Hersh's interview (Wolf Blitzer today)
snip....

HERSH: Yes. He was one of Saddam's closest allies, I'd say from '68 to the middle '70s. He was a big supporter of Saddam. Saddam was, you know, killing his the way through the Baath Party to get control. The vice president then -- all during the '70s he was seizing control, but he finally got it officially in '79. And for five or six or seven years, Allawi was his guy, one of his people in Europe. And what they would do is they would basically, the only other word for it is murder the opposition anywhere in Europe. And he was certainly involved with those people. He was a thug. I've talked to people who have read his internal CIA file. On the other hand, he also became later a very big asset.

BLITZER: Well, they tried to kill him. They axed him almost to death. He spent a year in a hospital because Saddam Hussein tried to kill him?

HERSH: His people did, yes. The head of the Mukhabarat did in '76 -- '78 is when he got axed. I think before that they had gone after him. Something happened in between '75, '76 in which they turned against him.

BLITZER: The bottom line, I guess, for U.S. policy today, Iyad Allawi, he's going to be the interim prime minister. He's a Shiite leader in Iraq right now. Is this a guy the United States can trust, can rely on to get the job done?

HERSH: People in our CIA who work with him say he's really quite competent. He's a good guy now. The past is passed. I urged by somebody, "It isn't worth it. Don't go after him." But the truth is that he had a very, very bad past. I even quote somebody in this article, one of the persons with whom he went to med school, a fellow Iraqi, as saying that his med degree came basically from the Baath Party. Nobody's quite sure, you know, what kind of doctor is he. He says he's a doctor. What's important is that it's totally, completely clear that he was involved with what the Russians call wet-ops, blood. And he was involved in a lot of very bloody things. And I quote a former CIA official using that word.

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0406/20/le.00.html
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