This AP story (thanks to Jeffrey Imm) says that only 2, not all 700, electoral workers in Mosul resigned after the jihadist threats.
BAGHDAD — U.S. troops rounded up 49 suspected terrorists near Saddam Hussein's hometown yesterday, one day after Iraq's most violent rebel groups warned voters against participating in crucial elections for a constitutional assembly on Jan. 30.American soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division detained the suspects during a midnight raid in Duluiyah, 45 miles north of Baghdad, dubbed "Operation Powder River," the U.S. military said.
The operation appeared to be the latest in a series of anti-insurgency campaigns in the so-called Sunni Triangle in central Iraq. Duluiyah is near Saddam's hometown of Tikrit....
Yesterday, a senior member of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq denied a report by the Al Jazeera satellite channel that all 700 workers for the Mosul electoral commission resigned Thursday because of threats.
"Only two people resigned and they are the head of the [electoral] office in Mosul and an accountant," Abdel al-Lami said, adding that the two had stepped down "for personal reasons."
During Friday prayers in a Baghdad mosque, Sheik Ahmed Abdul-Ghafour Al-Samarie of the Association of Muslim Scholars — an influential Sunni group — demanded that U.S. troops leave Iraq.
"We have to realize that the Allah is mightier than America and more powerful than the occupation forces," he said. "America, which conducted crimes everywhere and supported Israel against Muslims, should take the lesson of the torrent and surge of the ocean in Asia."
The 49 suspected terrorists should not be alive, they should be dead.
Sheik Ahmed Abdul and his mosque should be gone with a daisy cutter.
Is that offensive?
I am offended by a culture of lies and deceit, falsehood and murder in the guise of 'religion'-
Do we have anything at all like 'Jihad'? What do we need to counter this fanatical ideology?
We have to realize that the Allah is mightier than America and more powerful than the occupation forces," he said. "America, which conducted crimes everywhere and supported Israel against Muslims, should take the lesson of the torrent and surge of the ocean in Asia."
At least the great satan in the west is showing more compassion than the all merciful allah
Centuries ago, it was learned that the jihadists and their supporters understand only one method of communication--and it is not words, and of course less so music or pictoral representations.
"We have to realize that the Allah is mightier than America and more powerful than the occupation forces," he said. "America, which conducted crimes everywhere and supported Israel against Muslims, should take the lesson of the torrent and surge of the ocean in Asia."
HA HA HA!
Go American forces! "I am offended by a culture of lies and deceit, falsehood and murder in the guise of 'religion'-"
We will hear soon from the ACLU,Amnesty Internationa,International Red Cross and Red Crescent,etc,as well from the United Nations and from our own liberals here in the US that the detention if these terrorists is illegal and they should be set free...to be able to commit other crimes against the iraqi people and against our troups.
TAKE NO PRISONERS would be the best approach.
"We have to realize that the Allah is mightier than America and... [America] should take the lesson of the torrent and surge of the ocean in Asia."
~Sheik Ahmed Abdul-Ghafour Al-Samarie~
dear sam,
said lesson being... what?
kill as many muslims as possible?
please get back to me on this.