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Iraq
Iraq MP found at al Qaeda meeting: U.S. military
2007-10-04
BAGHDAD (Rooters) - A member of Iraq's parliament is in U.S. custody and being questioned after an Iraqi special forces raid on a suspected al Qaeda meeting, the U.S. military said on Thursday. A spokesman for the Iraqi parliament said the lawmaker was from the assembly's main Sunni Arab bloc.
So not all the Sunni leaders are going after al-Qaeda.
The man was held after a raid in the Sunni Arab town of Sharqat, 260 km (160 miles) northwest of Baghdad, in volatile Salahuddin province on September 29, the U.S. military said in an email in response to queries from Reuters.

"The man being held is one of the 275 members of the Iraqi Council of Representatives," the military said. "Officially, he is not considered a 'detainee' at this time. He is being held for questioning after being found at a suspected al Qaeda in Iraq meeting during a combined Iraqi Security Forces/Coalition operation," it said.

The military said it would not release the man's name. It is believed to be the first time a member of Iraq's parliament has been detained by Iraqi or U.S. forces.

The Iraqi parliament spokesman said Accordance Front member Naif Mohammed Jasim had been taken into custody while he was attending a funeral in Sharqat on Wednesday. The Accordance front, parliament's main Sunni Arab bloc, pulled out of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's fractured Shi'ite-led coalition government last month, protesting at what it said was his failure to address their demands for a greater say in government.
Posted by:anonymous5089

#23  Zenster WE insist, please elaborate some more, 20 inches to three feet per column per comment will just barely allow an intelect such as yours to expound on the topic... and if needed use another 2 or 3 shots at the topic please.

And ask as many short questions of commenters so that they may feel the butter, OK!

No one here has your keen insight afterall so please, please indulge yourself.
Posted by: Gresing and Tenille8240   2007-10-04 23:50  

#22  There are definatley more moles. Someone is giving away the locations of some of those convoys. Every Sunni probably has former Bathe breathing down there necks while Al-Duri is safely providing logisitics in Syria. I'm glad the Iraqi special forces are completing more missions so we can leave this shit hole and go after some terrorist leadership.
Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Unomoting3635   2007-10-04 23:43  

#21  Given traitors like Baghdad Jim McDermott and others in our own congress, I am not surprised at collaborators in theirs.

Which of them had their (historic) way paved first?
Posted by: Zenster   2007-10-04 23:28  

#20  Given traitors like Baghdad Jim McDermott and others in our own congress, I am not surprised at collaborators in theirs.
Posted by: OldSpook   2007-10-04 23:16  

#19  I've had a cup of tea waiting so long it's tepid.

Horreurs!
Posted by: Zenster   2007-10-04 22:46  

#18  Bobby was just teasing, Zenster. You generally are quite thorough in your serious posts. He could easily have said the same to me, but I only just got to this thread. (It's been a very interrupted kind of day, for some reason. I've had a cup of tea waiting so long it's tepid.)
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-10-04 22:33  

#17  Bobby, you asked, I answered. ANY QUESTIONS? Do you really think that American nation building can embrace shari'a law and its usual thugocracies?
Posted by: Zenster   2007-10-04 22:26  

#16  wouldn't that fly in the face of democracy and nations building?

Ummm ... no. Nations are not built around thugocracies. Democracy cannot coexist with shari'a law. Any questions?

All Muslims are jihadis, in some form. That is one reason why I favored liquidating Iraq terrorists prior to implementing political reforms.

A far better and more viable plan, McZ.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-10-04 19:04  

#15  25 words or less? i guess we know who the short attention span section is for now don't we
Posted by: sinse   2007-10-04 19:03  

#14  All Muslims are jihadis, in some form. That is one reason why I favored liquidating Iraq terrorists prior to implementing political reforms.
Posted by: McZoid   2007-10-04 18:41  

#13  Zen has a point but at the same time, that can backfire as much as Iraq or Pakistan has. It'll take years for democracy to take effect.

Please limit your posts. (;-> ^_^
Posted by: Bobbysocks   2007-10-04 16:15  

#12  Zen - wouldn't that fly in the face of democracy and nations building?

Please limit your response to 25 words or less. (;->
Posted by: Bobby   2007-10-04 15:58  

#11  And this guy ain't the only one, guaranteed.

Iraq's "government" is so thoroughly compromised as to make our 14% approved leaders look like paragons of true statesmanship. From al-Maliki, all the way down, we need to disband Iraq's government and either hold new elections—with stringent vetting of every candidate—or replace their entire shitpot-of-a-parliament with an iron-fisted military dictatorship. No matter what, such an opportunity must be used to rectify one of our most dire mistakes by excising all shari'a law from Iraq's constitution.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-10-04 14:25  

#10  Hey, these people invented back-stabbing and double-dealing. Why the surprise? We knew they were in the Parliament, we just didn't know who, specifically.

And this guy ain't the only one, guaranteed.
Posted by: mojo   2007-10-04 14:04  

#9  squeeze him like a zit, until he pops and drain all the info from him, then string him up.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2007-10-04 13:40  

#8  The deepest circles of hell are reserved for the musselman and traitors.
Posted by: newc   2007-10-04 13:31  

#7  The Council of Representatives consists of 275 274 members elected for four years
Posted by: BigEd   2007-10-04 13:15  

#6  Our good old reliable Sunni allies!
Posted by: Zenster   2007-10-04 12:31  

#5  Well, he's over.
Posted by: Mike   2007-10-04 12:26  

#4  Was his name Al Murtha?
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2007-10-04 12:22  

#3  So the Al Qaeda meeting was at a funeral? Makes sense - lots of opportunities these days. Where better to elect the new emir than at the funeral of the emir who just got snuffed?
Posted by: Glenmore   2007-10-04 11:54  

#2  Now, if he was an American pol, he could say he was running his own "sting operation". Probably could get away with it...if he was a Democrat.
Posted by: tu3031   2007-10-04 10:51  

#1  Al-Qaeda meeting? I thought this was the Shriner's convention. I must have walked into the wrong banquet hall.
Posted by: danking70   2007-10-04 10:47  

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