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Iraq
Baath official hurt in Kirkuk attack
2003-11-06
An Iraqi woman linked to the Baath party and her daughter has been wounded in an attack on their home in Kirkuk, north of Baghdad. Iraqi police on Wednesday named the woman as, Jamila Abbas Khumeidi saying that she was ''targeted because she was a high official of the Baath party''.
Sometimes that'll do it...
Khumeidi, is the former head of the Association of Iraqi women, which worked closely with the former government of Iraq. In a separate incident in Kirkuk, a rocket slammed into the offices of a cultural centre. The attack on the al-Shafaq Kurdish cultural organisation is linked to the Kurdistan Democratic Party (DDP), according to members of the group. The front of the building was damaged in the blast, but there were no reports of any injuries. Ahmad Taqana, a member of the DDP said: ''I cannot accuse anyone but I believe there will be more attacks in the coming days.''
You know it. The Bad Guys are trying to mount their Ramadan offensive...
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#3  ..Jamila Abbas Khumeidi saying that she was "targeted because she was a high official of the Baath party".

Well hell, makes sense to me, being as how the Baathists had free rein over Iraq for the past thirty years or so. Since she was a Baath official at some point, what are the chances that she was, at one time or another, involved in something unethical or shady by common standards?
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2003-11-6 4:47:48 PM  

#2  I read someplace once that there was somewhere in the neighborhood of 9,000 reprisal killings in France in the 12 months following Liberation.

My own wife's Tory ancestors bolted North Carolina for Nova Scotia in the 1780's.

A lot of Ba'athists goons are getting whacked around the country and I'm afraid it's inevitable.

Yeah, the anti-liberation creeps will use it to say we can't keep a lid on Hell but to paraphrase Jefferson, the tree of Liberty needs the blood of tyrants.
Posted by: JDB   2003-11-6 1:50:39 PM  

#1  ''targeted because she was a high official of the Baath party''

local kurds taking things into their own hands. No tears for the Baathist, but this sort of thing needs to be kept under control.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2003-11-6 9:42:38 AM  

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