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| US forces release Sunni leader in Iraq, apologise |
| 2006-06-25 |
| TIKRIT, Iraq - US forces apologised to a senior Sunni Arab religious leader and his two sons after arresting them in a raid on the familyÂ’s home they said was based on bad intelligence, an Iraqi security source said. Sheikh Jamal Abdel Karim al-Dabaan and his sons were released on Saturday, hours after their arrests, said the source, an official at the joint US-Iraqi co-ordination centre in Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad. There was no immediate comment from the US military. Dabaan is a top Mufti, or religious authority, for most of IraqÂ’s minority Sunni Muslim community. The deputy governor of Salahaddin province, a mostly Sunni region, said earlier most provincial government offices had suspended work in protest at the arrest of Dabaan and were refusing to return to work until he was freed. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #6 Possibly not. Even if they iced him, they would probably still claim that he was a Great Islamic Hero™ and that the American's Shiite puppets did him in. Hilter and Stalin both used that gambit a few times. |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2006-06-25 00:55 |
| #5 Would you meet with him after he got turned loose? Let the word out that he turned on his minions to save himself... arrest a few to reinforce, and keep the word out that he's OUR bitch |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-06-25 00:46 |
| #4 Yeah, it was a message, Frank. It would have worked really well against the Mafia. But this ain't the G-men against the mob. This is war. And unlike the mob, the Islamists have their own highly networked propaganda apparatus. Here's the message that the Islamists and Baathists are spinning right now: "See, we went on strike for a day and the Amriki caved. They searched and threatened for three days and they couldn't get anyone to give up where we were holding those soldiers of theirs we captured." |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2006-06-25 00:44 |
| #3 P'raps they weighed him and tagged his ear before turning him loose... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-06-25 00:34 |
| #2 think a message was sent? I do.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-06-25 00:29 |
| #1 And here I thought we were finally going after the holy men. I guess that I could weave some fantasy that we turned him during captivity, but I'm not good at that sort of self-deception. |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2006-06-25 00:24 |