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2007-03-26 Iraq

Hit on Iraq deputy PM seen as inside job

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Posted by tu3031 2007-03-26 11:21|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Has anyone heard from Cousin Wahab al-Saadi's family since the incident? Or were they subsequently involved in an unfortunate incident of their own...

Posted by trailing wife 2007-03-26 12:58|| 2007-03-26 12:58|| Front Page Top

#2 If'n my mind isn't playing tricks on me, the Iraq Convention Center (parliament) is and has been guarded by a foreign security company ever since the US military stepped back from it (Global Security - mostly Peruvian ex-military). There were some Iraqis as well, usually working in tandem with the Global guys. This has been the set-up going back quite a ways.

The IZ access (checkpoints) are multi-layered: Iraqi military/police at outer layer, then US or Coalition (Georgians for the past year or more) at the inner layer. Vehicles all get sniffed and otherwise inspected at the checkpoints where they are allowed. Hard to see how they'd get this stuff inside, other than in the Iraqi security details.

I recall one Iraqi security team was fingered as having planned a multiple-bomb attack inside the IZ last year.

There have been ongoing discussions/arguments for some time about shrinking the IZ perimeter to give the Iraqis control of the Conv. Center and Al Rasheed across the street, but so far nothing's happened. Can't imagine the last few months' events will accelerate any such moves in that direction .....

Posted by Verlaine 2007-03-26 13:47|| 2007-03-26 13:47|| Front Page Top

#3 ... an inside job carried out by a member of his own security detail a distant relative who had been arrested as an insurgent, freed at the official's request, then hired as a bodyguard

The above incident, along with the overall outpouring of Iraqi thanks for America's liberation of their arid pesthole has inspired me to coin a new oxymoron:

Arab gratitude

It now joins "Arab unity" in my collection of wry and, just as often, true summaries of Arab behavior. I firmly believe that the depths of Arab ingratitude knows no bounds.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-03-26 13:58|| 2007-03-26 13:58|| Front Page Top

#4 " I firmly believe that the depths of Arab ingratitude knows no bounds."

Especially outside their Creed and Clan.

Posted by Duh! 2007-03-26 15:43|| 2007-03-26 15:43|| Front Page Top

#5 I firmly believe that the depths of Arab ingratitude knows no bounds.

And you're wrong. The concept, simply doesn't apply in the context of the code of ethics build on relatedness (not reciprocity like the one you take for granted).

Posted by gromgoru 2007-03-26 15:46|| 2007-03-26 15:46|| Front Page Top

#6 gromgoru, I'm well aware of how high context Arab society is incapable of extending their clannish interactions to the greater world at large. This is what keeps Islam locked in the stone age and allows Arabs to mentally segregate Muslims from Infidels on a moral and ethical level. This lack of compassionate projection is also what obliges me to predict that Islam gets vaporized in the near future.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-03-26 16:20|| 2007-03-26 16:20|| Front Page Top

#7 2 strikes yer out.
this guy, Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi, should never be allowed to choose anything to do with guns or personal or security, or ID cards or who gets paroled..

Posted by RD 2007-03-26 22:34|| 2007-03-26 22:34|| Front Page Top

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