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| Iraq says Jordan allows Saddam kin to aid attacks | |
| 2005-08-22 | |
| The Iraqi government has accused Jordan of allowing family members of Saddam Hussein to finance an insurgent campaign to destabilize Iraq and restore the Baath Party. "I am sorry to say there are a lot of figures, not only senior regime members, but those who supervise the terrorist groups, in Jordan," Laith Kubba, a spokesman for Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, told reporters Sunday in Baghdad. turning up the heat Saddam's relatives "live there and have huge sums of money, and they are supporting political and media activities and other efforts to revive the Baath Party," Kubba said, calling it "unacceptable."
The U.S. military said a soldier was killed Sunday in Ad Dwar, near Tikrit, when his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb. Two soldiers were killed when a vehicle rolled over near Tal Afar. In northern Iraq, the U.S. commander for western Mosul, Lieutenant Colonel Erik Kurilla, was wounded when he was shot three times Friday during fighting that eventually ended in hand-to-hand combat, according to Michael Yon, a writer embedded with the military who posted an account on his Web site. A military official confirmed that Kurilla, commander of the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry, had been shot in the legs and was in stable condition. Kurilla's unit has been at the forefront of efforts to calm Mosul. The battalion faced an insurgent uprising soon after arriving last fall, but in recent months it had captured scores of militants. | |
| Posted by:too true |
| #3 I say that family's life should be forfiet now that they've paid for Americans to die. |
| Posted by: Cranter Glolet1257 2005-08-22 14:36 |
| #2 Can't have an article without the obligatory "more killed by surging violence", but actually citing a blogger as a source? Well, only because a big officer got wacked, I suppose; this original was NYSlimes, after all. Best wishes to LTC Kurilla and JOURNALIST Michael Yon! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2005-08-22 12:02 |
| #1 Can't have an article without the obligatory "more killed by surging violence", but actually citing a blogger as a source? Well, only because a big officer got wacked, I suppose; this original was NYSlimes, after all. Best wishes to LTC Kurilla and JOURNALIST Michael Yon! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2005-08-22 12:01 |