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| Iraq broadcasts truck bomber video confession | |
| 2009-08-23 | |
Iraq on Sunday showed a video of a Saddam Hussein loyalist confessing to orchestrating one of two massive truck bombings that killed 95 people and maimed hundreds more in Baghdad four days ago.
The 57-year-old suspect said the truck bomb was prepared in Khalis, 80 kilometres (50 miles) northeast of Baghdad, and that he had called a contact in the nearby town of Muqdadiyah to ensure its safe passage to the capital. Ibrahim, who said he was a chief of police in Diyala until 1995 under Saddam's rule, said he had worked as a lawyer until 2002 but then became a leading Baathist official in the restive province northeast of Baghdad. Major-General Qassim Atta, spokesman for the Iraqi Army's Baghdad operations, told reporters that Ibrahim was the main person responsible for the attack at the ministry of finance. The second truck bombing on Wednesday occurred just minutes later at the ministry of foreign affairs. | |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 my boss in the (Baath) party Sattam Farhan in Syria Back in the day, President Bush would have handled this very effectively, but President Obama isn't going to lift even his littlest finger to help. The fact that Iraq broadcast the video should indicate the government is figuring out what they should -- and can -- do. The Iraqi army has not been training for external war, after all. On the other hand, how much oil has Iraq been supplying to Syria? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-08-23 18:34 |
| #1 "I received a call a month ago from my boss in the (Baath) party Sattam Farhan in Syria to do an operation to destabilise the regime," Why doesn't Iraq go after these guys? |
| Posted by: Penguin 2009-08-23 17:20 |