Iraqi PM warns worse to come from insurgents

[leftchick]

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BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari told his violence-weary nation to brace for even larger attacks as insurgents exact revenge on the government for its "success" in rebuilding the country.


At least 10 Iraqis were killed in a new spate of attacks that followed a bloody sequence of days for the Iraqi security forces, as US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick met Jaafari in Baghdad in a bid to boost the reconstruction process.

Speaking in parliament, Jaafari said the recent kidnapping and killing of Egypt's top envoy to Baghdad by alleged Al-Qaeda militants was a direct response to the success of the Brussels donors conference for Iraq's reconstruction held on June 22.

"The killing of the late Ihab al-Sharif was nothing but an expression of the success of the political process," Jaafari said.

"So we must prepare ourselves that every time we make progress in the process and every time we make big achievements the reaction will be big. This operation (Sharif's killing) aims to undermine the major political progress we achieved in a short time."

[Roland99]

1. Vote it UP!!

BTW, "success in the country"


:wtf:

[3days]

2. But the insurgency is over

According to Maj. Gen. William G. Webster Jr. .

U.S. and Iraqi forces have "mostly eliminated" the ability of insurgents to conduct sustained, high-intensity attacks in Baghdad, the top U.S. commander in the Iraqi capital said Friday.

Maj. Gen. William G. Webster Jr. said in a video-teleconference interview from Baghdad with reporters at the Pentagon that offensive operations by U.S. and Iraqi troops in recent weeks had sharply reduced the number of insurgent bombings. But he cautioned against concluding that the insurgency has been broken.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/08/AR2005070800732_pf.html


I guess someone forgot to tell the insurgents

[justinsb]

3. You mean the last throes

are going to get laster and throier?

[fertilizeonarbusto]

4. butbutbut

Dick Cheesey sez the insugency is on "its last throes."

[upsidedownaussie]

5. pffft.

He's probably just not aware of, you know, the dictionary definition of "last throes".

/sarcasm

[bribri16]

6. The worst to come for whom? No one seems to mourn the dead

Iraqi innocent women, men, and children who are killed by American bombs and kill-crazed military and special ops.