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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: miko2d on November 13, 2003, 09:48:30 AM
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May be worth knowing for some who want a more complete picture.
Nov 11, 2003 - US soldier shot and killed the US-appointed mayor of Sadr City - the 2 million Shiite district of Baghdad.
Abrupt and unscheduled return to US by L. Paul Bremer, Washington's proconsul in Baghdad, for top-level White House consultations after a pessimistic CIA report on public attitudes in Iraq.
Administration officials have publicly described Bremer's two-day dash to Washington as routine -d espite the fact that Bremer had to cancel a long-planned meeting in Baghdad with visiting Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller. Despite public opposition, Miller's government has supplied more troops to the occupation than any other country, except US and UK.
The IGC, which has until Dec. 15 to submit to the United Nations Security Council a plan to draft a new constitution while in southern Iraq, a grand ayatollah Ali al-Sistani issued a fatwa declaring that only an elected assembly has the legitimacy to draw up a constitution. For many of Iraq's 15m Shias that is all that matters. The administration could go along with the position of the Shia authorities in Najaf, who have called for elections to a constitutional convention. But that could create new problems or further alienate the Sunni population due to the fact that Shiites would almost certainly dominate such a process.
miko
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Source?
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It was reported here.
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Originally posted by davidpt40
It was reported here.
Same.
"Shiite mayor killed in fight with U.S. soldier
Last Updated Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:42:50
SADR CITY, IRAQ - About 300 demonstrators in central Iraq chanted anti-American slogans after a U.S. soldier shot to death the Shiite mayor of Sadr City in an altercation.
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http://www.cbc.ca/storyview/CBC/2003/11/11/mayor031111
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Al-Kaabi wrestled the soldier to the ground and grabbed his gun, according to officials. Another soldier shot al-Kaabi in the upper thigh.
^^What a dummass...Darwin Rule #1. When Ape man has big stick, do NOT try to take big stick from Ape man.
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^^ My gullible firend...
Why the heck would he need to take a gun away from an american? If he really needed to shoot someone, why wouldn't he have used his own gun?
Thursday, November 13, 2003
Also, Mohammed Bahr Ul Iloom was shot at today. Bahr Ul Iloom is one of the Shia clerics (a `rotating president`) and the father of the Minister of Oil. He was unharmed, it seems, but his driver is wounded. While I`m sure Bahr Ul Iloom would love to blame it on loyalists, Ba`athists and Al-Qaeda, the shots actually came from American troops- it was a `mistake`. Oops.
miko