Sunni leader says Interior Ministry killed 24 Sunnis in Baghdad

[leftchick]

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/article_1094760.php/Sunni_leader_says_Interior_Ministry_killed_24_Sunnis_in_Baghdad

Baghdad - The bodies of 24 Sunni Arabs found Friday to the west of Baghdad were killed 'in cold blood' by forces from the Interior Ministry, Secretary General of the Sunni Iraqi National Dialogue Council Khalaf al-Olayan told a press conference Saturday.

'Special forces (maghaweer) from the Interior Ministry raided al- Aqsa mosque in Taji during evening prayers and shot inside the mosque unjustifiably,' al-Olayan said.

'They arrested nine worshippers and took them to an unknown place ... They were found yesterday killed in the Ghazalia region after being tortured together with 15 other bodies,' he added.

Al-Olayan also urged the government of Prime Minister Ibrahim al- Jaafari to take the necessary measures to stop what he termed the 'series of brutality and terror.'

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Any room at Saddam's trial for just a few more??? nt.

[zanne]

2. Gee, we couldn't see that one coming. nt

[rodeodance]

4. the cultural thesis of 'an eye for an eye"--reigns highs!

[rodeodance]

6. see Dowd's article below.

[rodeodance]

3. someone best tell Rummy that there is a civil war going on (has been

going on).

[rodeodance]

5. Dowd-Didn't See It Coming, Again--(WH is "culturally illiterate") I had

earlier posted this in another forum but it really fits this story well.

Sat Feb-04-06 06:00 AM
Original message
Dowd-Didn't See It Coming, Again--(WH is "culturally illiterate")


Edited on Sat Feb-04-06 06:26 AM by rodeodance


http://select.nytimes.com/gst/tsc.html?URI=http://selec... (5Q5Bl

> Didn't See It Coming, Again
> by Maureen Dowd
> The New York Times
> February 1, 2006
>
> Washington
>
> The White House should hire an anthropologist.
>
> Corporations have begun hiring anthropologists to help them improve product designs and interpret markets. And clearly, the Bush foreign policy team doesn't understand any of the markets where it is barging around ineptly trying to sell America and democracy.
>
> The brand value of America has been in steady decline. The state of the union is sour but the state of the world is chilling, thanks to a hideously ham-handed Bush foreign policy crew that was once billed as a seasoned "dream team."
>
> The more the White House tries to force-feed democracy to tempestuous parts of the world, the more it discovers that you may be able to spin and scare voters in the U.S., but the Middle East is not so easy to manipulate. W. believes in self-determination only if he's doing the determining. Fundamentalists in America like to vote for Mr. Bush, but elsewhere they're violently opposing him.
>
> It's stunning that nearly four decades after Vietnam, our government could be even more culturally illiterate and pigheaded. The Bushies are more obsessed with snooping on Americans than fathoming how other cultures think and react.
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