Saddam Agents, Militants Plan 'Vicious' Poll Attacks

[leftchick]

"Saddam Agents"! lol...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=574&e=1&u=/nm/20050116/wl_nm/iraq_dc_2


Barham Salih said intelligence gathered from dozens of Saddam's former intelligence and army officers and foreign fighters arrested in the past week points to a major offensive during the polls.


Members of Saddam's toppled Baath Party and foreign militants inspired by al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) and his key ally in Iraq, Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, may have suffered setbacks but have plenty of cash.


"We do have, I think, some good ideas about what they are planning to do as a way of attacking polling stations and creating an insecure environment to prevent the population from going to the polling stations," he told Reuters in an interview.


"They have vicious plans to derail the process. Bin Laden recently came out with a very clear statement that he does not want elections to be held in Iraq."


Iraq's U.S.-backed government is pinning its hopes on the Jan. 30 elections to usher in a new era of democracy after decades of Saddam's iron-fisted rule.

But security fears have overshadowed the political process.

"We are dealing with a tough, mindless, determined, resourceful enemy that wants to deny us that basic right of going to the polling station to decide the future of this country," said Salih, a former Kurdish exile in Washington and London.

[madrchsod]

1. hmmmm

if it goes as well as the palestinian elections.......

[leftchick]

2. it will be worse...

much worse. The US is in shit...deep shit.

[Yupster]

6. I checked on www.askimam.com

to see what an Islamic government is supposed to look like just to see what the resistance might want.

Check out the answer...

http://islam.tc/ask-imam/view.php?q=6831

Apparently there are three acceptable ways to choose a leader. Elections are not one of them.

1. People can pledge loyalty to someone.
2. The leader can nominate someone to succeed him.
3. The ruler appoints a committee to name a successor after he dies.

Not overly encouraging.

[Just Me]

3. They gotta' blame some-evil-one for the resistence against occupation.

At least they were accurate in characterizing those in power as "Iraq's U.S.-backed government".

[leftchick]

4. I noticed that as well...

It is nice when the truth seeps out, even if by accident.

[saigon68]

5. Iraq's U.S.-backed government

Actually its Iraq's U.S.-Puppet government

Put in Power at the Barrel of a Gun by the Bush Criminals

[jjtss]

7. The key word is Kurdish

It doesn't matter who disrupts their election. G. Brish has decided that if things don't go his way it is all Saddam's fault. That man hasn't had a blameless day since he refused to launder daddy bush's bribe money.