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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-30-03 03:53 PM
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Najaf Bombing: Iraqi Police Deny Foreign Role
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/31/international/worldspecial/31FUNE.html?ex=1063271271&ei=1&en=4605f1359d286fb8

Thousands Mourn Iraqi Ayatollah Killed in Bombing

<snip>Four suspects were detained, the police said, but they rejected reports quoting anonymous police sources that the suspects had been carrying identification cards from the former intelligence services or were foreigners. Officials increasingly focused on the theory that the car bomb was the work of members of the toppled government.

The police criticized the ayatollah's bodyguards — there were about 16 with him in various vehicles — for allowing an unknown vehicle to park so close. But the general sentiment is that American forces have failed to ensure security throughout Iraq.

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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-30-03 03:59 PM
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1. they can't possibly know already

If I had to come up with a tinfoil hat theory, I'd say this was planned by the U.S. as a desperate play to elist the Shiites against the resistance in Baghdad.

Maybe that's what Poppy's meeting with Prince Bandar was about, and maybe that explains Bremer's vacation timing. Who didn't say "wtf" when they heard Bremer was on vacation? :tinfoilhat:
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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-30-03 04:07 PM
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2. who paid to print these great photo banners ???
Edited on Sat Aug-30-03 04:17 PM by amen1234
it's impossible to print anything in a country lacking electricity and money, a country already demolished, but somehow, these banners pop up just in the nick of time....is this what p.bremer is doing ???
BTW, where is bremer ?? he was just appointed to the position at the end of May, when bush* threw out his first annointment...now, bremer is already taking a vacation ??? at a very opportune time...








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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-30-03 04:43 PM
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6. These folks can't get food and water
Most of them don't have electric, but they can get process color banners in a day?

Makes you wonder.
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remfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-30-03 04:17 PM
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3. Creepy feeling here
and I'll just lay out what gives me the feeling...

1) Perle's comment about handing Iraq over to the Iraqis.
2) Chalabi saying the same thing right after the bombing.
3) Chalabi having a press conference after the bombing & placing blame on Saddam loyalists.
4) Chalabi heading up the governing council in September.
5) September being the month for new "products".
6) David Kay's report on WMD comes out in September.
7) The FBI is not investigating the bombing, the Iraqi police (newly trained by the US) are.
8) The speed of the arrests.
9) The neocons longterm relationship with Chalabi.
10) The Rendon Group's longterm relationship with Chalabi.
11) AEI's longterm relationship with the neocons and Chalabi.

I may be way off the mark, but I know the neocons aren't going to stop until they get what they want, and they want Chalabi to run Iraq. What if the Iraqi police are Chalabi's troops?
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-30-03 04:20 PM
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4. What if the Iraqi police are Chalabi's troops?
Then they will die too. That is getting more obvious as each day passes.

Don

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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-30-03 04:23 PM
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5. chalabi is bush*'s 'new and improved' saddam...keeping Iraq
Edited on Sat Aug-30-03 04:26 PM by amen1234
in turmoil is a critically important step to chalabi assuming dictatorial power...there's a real reason why no efforts are made to get water running, or the power up and running, and why all humanitarian agencies have been run out (those pesky humanitarians might document the on-going war crimes)...and the reporters have left (those who weren't killed by American forces)...

so everything is going along as planned...and bremer is residing in washington DC now....where the toilets work, and the water flows out of taps, and air conditioning works....bremer has decided that it's easier to send our tax dollars directly to Haliburton from his nice office in DC...why bother with residing in Iraq at all...in the end, our troops will protect the oil, that's all...our troops have already been removed from all areas but a few important ones, where they are hunkered down...

sad, that OUR soldiers are the people who are being sacrificed, while Haliburton and other defense contractors are showered in money...

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stickdog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-30-03 05:41 PM
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7. That's the plan, Stan.
Edited on Sat Aug-30-03 06:30 PM by stickdog
We'll see if it works.
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