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Iraq
Maliki sez Abu Deraa got away
2006-10-28
Iraqi PM Nouri Al-Maliki on Thursday said Iraq's most notorious death squad leader had escaped a major US-led raid in Sadr City which the Americans said killed 10 "enemy fighters". Wednesday's ground and air assault targeted Abu Deraa, a feared warlord held responsible for a rash of brutal sectarian killings and kidnappings of Iraqi Sunnis.
Posted by:Fred

#3  If I was in charge I would claim everyone got away or was KIA. That way we cut out all the BS of authorization, protest, torture or not, blah blah blah scoop em deny it put the screws to em then 22hollow DEAD MEN DON't TALK OR PROTEST.

Unfortunatley I doubt this the case he probably just did escape.
Posted by: C-Low   2006-10-28 09:08  

#2  "Quick the Americans are comming!
Surround me with children and ferret me out through the sewer pipe! You charge down the machine guns while I pack up the Yankee dollars and make my escape! It will be a glorious day brothers, the infidels will lose if any one of us can manage to live! And that rat will be me!"
Posted by: Abu Deraa   2006-10-28 06:35  

#1  2 questions leapeth out:

1) Maliki knows his Shia ally was there how, exactly?

2) Who in Maliki's gang dropped the dime to warn him?
Posted by: .com   2006-10-28 00:17  

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