Plot to kill Saddam judge uncovered - Democratic Underground

ECH1969

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Sat Nov-26-05 07:19 PM
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Plot to kill Saddam judge uncovered

Iraqi police said on Saturday they have smashed an al-Qaeda-linked cell plotting an imminent assassination attempt against the chief judge trying deposed leader Saddam Hussein.

"We arrested 12 members of a cell linked to the Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda during a dawn raid on a house in eastern Kirkuk," said Colonel Anwar Kader, police chief in the ethnically tense northern Iraqi city.

"They confessed during questioning to planning to kill (chief judge) Raed al-Juhi this week," he added.

Juhi heads the Iraqi High Tribunal which is due on Monday to resume the trial of Saddam and seven of his former cohorts on charges of crimes against humanity.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,6119,2-10-1460_1841178,00.html

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ret5hd

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Sat Nov-26-05 07:33 PM
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1. "They confessed during questioning..."

Uh-huh. ok.

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pinto

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Sat Nov-26-05 07:48 PM
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4. Chilling statement...one can just imagine.

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TahitiNut

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Sat Nov-26-05 08:01 PM
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7. How conveeeenient. Why am I guessing there're OTHER people, too?

Edited on Sat Nov-26-05 08:01 PM by TahitiNut

(Gomer Pyle:) Surprise, surprise! Funny how somebody else is gonna kill the judge, huh? :eyes:

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pinto

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Sat Nov-26-05 07:44 PM
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2. Iraqi Sunnis and al Qaeda fundamentalist co-conspirators? Think not.

"Kader said that all the suspects were Iraqi Sunni Arabs either from Kirkuk, Saddam's former hometown of Tirkrit or the restive western province of Al-Anbar."

Taking a page out of the US playbook, the Iraq Civil War is being passed off as "al-Qaeda-linked" operation...

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TheGunslinger

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Sat Nov-26-05 07:46 PM
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3. Here's the proof that Al Qaeda and Saddam are linked!!!

:sarcasm:

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Eugene

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Sat Nov-26-05 07:49 PM
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5. Al Qaeda? Yeah, right.

Let me get this straight. They rounded up a dozen
al Qaeda men and none of them faught to the death?
All these Jihadis happen to by Sunni Iraqis,
many from Saddam's home town? And these
supposed fanatics promptly confessed?

I smell bullsh*t. This was a roundup of the usual suspects.

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Gregorian

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Sat Nov-26-05 07:55 PM
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6. Does al-Qaeda work for George Bush?

I don't know. Just popped into my head.

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daleo

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Sat Nov-26-05 11:46 PM
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8. Why would Al-Quada give a damn about Saddam?

This has got to be garbage, based on that claim alone.

There may be people who would have tried to kill the judge, but they wouldn't have anything to do with Bin Laden.

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