US backed Shia cleric killed in Najaf

by the hand that 'shocks' the cradle (of bush jr.) Thu Apr 10, 2003 21:43

taking their lead from the afghan rebels and the recent slaying of the Serbian prime minister, the iraqis have begun to assassinate western stooges.

good riddance

(don't) hate to say we told you so...

and another suicide bombing today in baghdad

by Caspian Thu Apr 10, 2003 22:20

Hear, hear! One less Iraqi traitor and American puppet. Who will be next? Ahmed Chalabi? Just a matter of time.

by James McKenna Thu Apr 10, 2003 22:31

The U.S. was so eager to display the staged meeting at the shrine of Imam Ali it flew two helicopters full of journalists to the holy city of Najaf to witness it. One of the dead, Abdul Majid al-Khoei a Shiite cleric had urged cooperation with U.S. troops. The other had avised people not to resist the invasion.

But things went horribly wrong.

"People attacked and killed both of them inside the mosque," One witness said a third person was killed.

Both men were then rushed by the crowd and hacked to death with swords and knives, the witnesses said.

Isn't liberation great!

by Caspian Thu Apr 10, 2003 22:48

I guess the audience weren't getting their money's worth. After all they had paid with their children's blood.
The Yanks are still providing a fantastic fireworks show. That's all that it was, wasn't it? I mean people weren't actually getting killed were they?

by Irish American Fri Apr 11, 2003 01:26

Every moderate and democratic voice must be savagely stabbed to death while they're trying to reconcile differing factions, in Iraq or elsewhere.

As General Astry said in 1936: Viva la muerte!Muera la inteligencia!

by Anti-imperialist American Fri Apr 11, 2003 10:22

'Irish American' follows the U.S. propaganda convention of referring to those who do U.S. bidding as "moderate and democratic". The word "moderate", at least, if not "democratic", has traditionally been applied by the U.S. media to every reactionary government in the Middle East that is pro-U.S. and not seriously anti-Israel.

By the way, what is it about crossing the ocean that changes freedom-loving Irish people, who know what it means to be the victims of racism, into overt or covert American White Supremacists? The phenomenon goes back to the early 19th Century, when most Irish Americans supported slavery and criticized their brethern in Ireland for opposing it. (I refer the reader to an excellent book about Irish American history, 'How the Irish Became White', by Noel Ignatiev.)

by jeannie johnson Fri Apr 11, 2003 12:13

dont forget Henry ford...irish-born emigrant (sligo I think) made good, invented sweat shop factory production lines, materially supported the nazi party during the thirties, even wrote a book: 'the problem of the international jew' in which he outlined a jewish plot against civilisation and how it must be DEALT with. nice guy.

by Irish American Fri Apr 11, 2003 21:12

Of course, I'm much more American than Irish. I was born here in the USA.

There's nothing like a visit to Ireland to remind me of that, although I like what I call "neo-pagan" Ireland better than the old priest-controlled Ireland.

So, I gather you think the stabbing of Islamic scholar Majid Al-Khoi’i was a good idea, "anti-imperialist" American?