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Thanks, SoloWriter. These people are absolute fools...
posted by
saul_relative
on January 5, 2007 at 11:33 AM
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Oh, yes, here it is ~
Hundreds of residents in Hebheb (20 km west of Baaquba) demonstrated to protest the execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, while more people flocked to offer their condolences in other towns, eyewitnesses said. Some 500 people took part in the demonstration, carrying Saddam's pictures, waving Iraqi flags and raising placards denouncing the Iraqi government and violation of Moslem sanctity on the first day of Eid al-Adha (Bairam), the witnesses told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). (…) A large number of armed men escorted the demonstrators, firing heavily into the air in a show of defiance to the government, he said. The witness said the demonstration lasted two hours and the protestors shouted slogans demanding revenge from the Americans and the Iraqi government. ´ Iraqi police forces and national guards watched the protest from a close distance but did not interfere, the witnesses said. In the towns of Hebheb, al-Hadeed and al-Aswad, Diala province, people flocked to mourning assemblies to offer their condolences over the death of Saddam, they added.
http://dailywarnews.blogspot.com/2007/01/daily-war-news-for-tuesday-january-2_02.html
posted by
Jenasis
on January 4, 2007 at 9:19 PM
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He did that, Nautikos. And you're right about Iraq ending up a divided
nation. There is no other way around it. Kurdistan already enjoys some autonomy and has for some time. The Shiites and Sunnis aren't going to get along... ever. Especially considering that the Sunnis sit on predominantly oil-less land.
posted by
saul_relative
on January 2, 2007 at 8:24 PM
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Saul,
The Butcher of Baghdad deserved what he got! The protests on the part of the Sunni sector of the population just demonstrate the deep divisions in that country, divisions he helped to maintain, even if he did not create them.
I predict that we will not see peace in Iraq for a long time, and that, in the end, some kind of division will become inevitable.
As to Saddam, he has my respect for one thing: he died like a man.
posted by
Nautikos
on January 2, 2007 at 6:22 PM
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