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| Two Iraqi Baathists detained for 1991 Shiite massacre | |||
| 2005-06-03 | |||
| KARBALA, Iraq - Police have arrested two former Baath party members accused of killing 43 Iraqi Shiites during the 1991 revolt against deposed dictator Saddam Hussein, a police source said on Thursday. "Adnan Nassar and Kazem al-Ukaili, accused of killing 43 inhabitants of Karbala during the Shiite uprising, were arrested by police," said General Abbas Fadel al-Hassani, head of the force in this city 110 kilometers south of Baghdad. "The two men who had fled Iraq have admitted the crimes," he added.
"Nassar is accused of murdering 20 people and Ukaili of 23 others."
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #11 LH and I went at it over this very issue. We can all be pushed to respond in "uncivilized" ways - I'm closer to that edg than he is, admittedly, but I make no excuses, and when the time comes, Achmed will wish he had listened |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-06-03 22:16 |
| #10 Deacon, those "progressives" aren't civilized, no matter how much they try to take possession of the term. They're just supercilious, pseudointellectual, bitchy wimps. In my considered opinion, civilized people try reason, then, should reason prove ineffective, they -- hopefully calmly and without anger -- eliminate the problem. Unfortunately, the only tools in my own little arsenal are tea and sweet reason (or not so sweet... I do have my moments), or erasure. Anything in between gives me nightmares. Silly and self-indulgent, I know, but there it is. So it's better if others with a larger range of tools handle the in-between bits, yes? With regard to the Islamofascists, or whatever we're calling them these days, we are still working on sweet reason. God rest their souls in hell if they push us to the "fry 'em up" stage. But even that isn't what we're capable of, were we to truly go postal on their asses. Just my opinion, of course. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-06-03 21:50 |
| #9 Civilized my ass!! Somebody attacks me and my friends/ loved ones/ country I get "dirt dog mean". Been there. Civilized gets you dead. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2005-06-03 19:33 |
| #8 Darn it, BA! Now I'm going to have to reassess my entire self-image! And who, pray tell, is going to tell trailing daughter #1, whose secondary reason for getting that black belt was to protect me from mean people, and who tells her little friends how cute I am? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-06-03 16:32 |
| #7 Just watchin' your comments, TW! However, I do agree with you...personally, I wanna stay civilized in this battle, but I'm afraid we may have no choice but to go postal on 'em if it keeps up. |
| Posted by: BA 2005-06-03 14:11 |
| #6 BA, what on earth did I do to give you the idea that I'm not "soft"? ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-06-03 12:00 |
| #5 Trailing wife...you goin' soft on us? I'd like to seem 'em burned and hung from a bridge, but maybe that's reserved only for 'mericans? No, thats only done by barbarians like the Fallujah jihadis, not by civilized folks like the new govt of Iraq. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2005-06-03 11:00 |
| #4 First we hang 'em, then... oh, never mind! |
| Posted by: Raj 2005-06-03 10:46 |
| #3 "They're nothing but low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous perverted worms! Hanging's too good for um. Burning's too good for um! They should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!" Hanover Fiste |
| Posted by: Steve 2005-06-03 10:39 |
| #2 Trailing wife...you goin' soft on us? I'd like to seem 'em burned and hung from a bridge, but maybe that's reserved only for 'mericans? |
| Posted by: BA 2005-06-03 09:05 |
| #1 Huzzah! And Hurrah! and Hurray!! Let them be fairly tried by an Iraqi judge and a jury of their fellow citizens. And then let them be hanged in a civilized manner, rather than being turned over to the peepul to be lynched as they deserve. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-06-03 06:48 |