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2005-09-27 Iraq

Sistani's pissed at the new-found wealth of the Zarqawi family

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-09-27 13:12|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Gee, the family of a kingpin in pretty much continuous contact with gangsters, money men, and criminals suddenly develop an advanced case of affluence? Say it ain't so.

The fact that the relations of a devil-worshipping serial killer, poisoner, and persecutor of Muslims throughout the region still live in unburnt houses says all that needs to be said about the social attitudes of their friends and neighbors.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2005-09-27 13:35|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2005-09-27 13:35|| Front Page Top

#2 This is what makes arab culture great folks.

Posted by MunkarKat 2005-09-27 13:38|| 2005-09-27 13:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Sistani never speaks without purpose. In this case, to make it uncomfortably obvious to the Jordanians that they are hoarding up a nest of vipers.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-09-27 13:59|| 2005-09-27 13:59|| Front Page Top

#4 The word "skim" comes to mind.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-09-27 14:44|| 2005-09-27 14:44|| Front Page Top

#5 I can hear his accountants now, "Zarq, is this right? The invoice said the donkey's we bought from your brother were worth only $40 a piece, but we paid $10,000 each.

We have to talk about these no bid contracts Zarq!"

EP

Posted by ElvisHasLeftTheBuilding 2005-09-27 14:49|| 2005-09-27 14:49|| Front Page Top

#6 We have to talk about these no bid contracts Zarq!"

"And who is this al-Hali Burton person?"

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-09-27 15:28|| 2005-09-27 15:28|| Front Page Top

#7 I dunno. This could be ominous. Paying the family of suicide bombers may indicate something big is in the works...just in case he doesn't make it out alive.

Posted by Danielle 2005-09-27 16:09|| 2005-09-27 16:09|| Front Page Top

#8 I don't think this is skimming per se; Zark's just doing a job and his extended family/clan is getting paid for it.

The Saudis make an enourmous amount of money from the increace in oil prices that come from the insurgency's impact on Iraqi oil production... a small fraction of a percentage of that going back to take care of the rest of the clan is probably money well spent. It lets them buy a lot of loyalty and opsec as well.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2005-09-27 18:04|| 2005-09-27 18:04|| Front Page Top

#9 The family home has been described as being in a particularly unpleasant area near the town cemetery and an abandoned quarry

Wasnt' their a shootout over Zark's body between US troops and Zark defenders in a cemetery? This interests me because it makes me wonder if that was near his home.

Zark is dead. He's dead Jim. Perhaps the family is spending their inheritance.

Posted by 2b 2005-09-27 21:15|| 2005-09-27 21:15|| Front Page Top

#10 there

Posted by 2b 2005-09-27 21:16|| 2005-09-27 21:16|| Front Page Top

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