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Iraq
Walkout in Iraq parliament over Sunni leader raid
2007-12-02
Follow-up on this story. This kind of nonsense has to stop. If he's got bombs in his house then strip him of his parliamentary immunity and prosecute him.
BAGHDAD - IraqÂ’s faltering political process was thrown into fresh turmoil on Saturday when the main Sunni bloc walked out of parliament in protest at a security crackdown on its leader Adnan al-Dulaimi.

The National Concord Front, the main Sunni bloc with 44 MPs in the 275-member parliament, walked out of the assembly, saying it would return after Dulaimi himself comes back to the legislature. “We announce our boycott of the parliament until Adnan al-Dulaimi returns to the assembly today or tomorrow,” the bloc’s Abdul Karim al-Samarraie told the assembly. “When I went to meet him I was stopped and told that he is under house arrest. This is a violation of the rights of an MP who wants to come to the parliament,” Samarraie said.

After his statement the blocÂ’s MPs walked out of the assembly hall. Mahmud al-Mashhadani, the Sunni parliament speaker, joined them.

Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh denied that Dulaimi was under house arrest. “What is being said about house arrest is not true. It is only protection given to Dulaimi until the situation is clear,” Dabbagh told state television Al-Iraqiya.

Political tension has risen sharply following the security crackdown on Dulaimi after the Iraqi army said on Thursday it found car bombs near his Baghdad offices. Dulaimi has been under effective house arrest since Friday, sparking a warning by the National Concord Front earlier on Saturday that IraqÂ’s political process could be derailed.

Shiite MP Haider al-Ibadi said the Dulaimi issue should not be discussed in the assembly. “There is an investigation and parliament should not interfere in it,” he said before the Sunnis walked out.
Posted by:Steve White

#7  if the population of Muslims in America increases by another 1%, they will begin demanding sharia, and if they don't get it they will become violent

bad mistake here - I'd welcome the chance to revenge Mo-the-Teddy-Bear, and I won't be playing for the cameras
Posted by: Frank G   2007-12-02 17:52  

#6  The Iraqi Parliament is nothing but a forum for Sunni and Shiite terrorists. Even the oil law debate followed demographics, and not Iraq constitutional law.

Ethnic cleansing is inevitable wherever Muslims are in large numbers. Muslims will not live in peace with persons of other religions; where they become a large minority, they reject majority law and confict with same. Where they are a majority, they impose sharia perversity. Muslim sectarianism ensures permanent conflict between Shiites and Sunnis.

Success of the Surge is based on both singling out terror strongholds, and using extreme force against same, while reducing 24-7 patrols through ethnic salients.

From the beginning of the intervention in Iraq, Daniel Pipes proposed rejection of Green Zone management in favor of basing troops outside of cities. The Surge ended the futility of standing in the middle of a 1400 year civil war between the sects. The Surge has allowed Shiites to conquer most of Baghdad, leaving only a small, vulnerable pocket based north of the Tigris, with Shiites surrounding south of Tigris corridor, toward the airport. The Surge should have reversed the Clinton Doctrine, which put the US in opposition to ethnic cleansing of Muslims, while allowing Muslims to cleanse ethnic minorities. The Surge wasn't a continuity of US military policy in Iraq; it was a reversal.

Frankly, I would napalm terror strongholds, then impose shoot on sight orders against burned terrorists.

Prediction: if the population of Muslims in America increases by another 1%, they will begin demanding sharia, and if they don't get it they will become violent. If their home bases in the Muslim cess pools are fully nuclearized, then they will have foreign backers of their subversion. Anyone who rejects the Huntingon-Thesis - Clash of Civilizations - should not be serving in political office in Western Civilization.
Posted by: McZoid   2007-12-02 17:26  

#5  i agree with besoeker, on the other hand let the Kurds have their own country and let the rest of them kill each other off
Posted by: sinse   2007-12-02 14:30  

#4  Don't have a link or even remember if it was the interweb or the wireless, but the Sunni sheiks who have been turning against al Qaida have also been complaining about the lameness of their Sunni members of parliment and how the MPs will need to be replaced if they don't get with the program
Posted by: SteveS   2007-12-02 13:23  

#3  Vasbyt Pappy! Vasbyt mate.
Posted by: Besoeker   2007-12-02 10:39  

#2  The corruption in Iraq is endemic, as it is in the whole Middle East. It starts at the very top and goes down through all ministries to the lowest construction contractor. There's too much loot floating around.

For now the US is looking the other way trying to tamp down the violence. It's very demoralizing to our folks who deal with these people daily. It's a lot like the movie "Gangs of New York".

It will be tough to root out the graft because it starts with the President of Iraq. He's an elected offical and we are "guests".

The next challenge will be an effective campaign to slow the free-for-all.
Posted by: Spiger B. Hayes6882   2007-12-02 10:25  

#1  Shoot them all and start over afresh.
Posted by: Besoeker   2007-12-02 03:10  

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