> Newsday - August 27, 2005
>
> Assassinations, Iranian Connection Spread Fear
> by Timothy M. Phelps
>
> BASRA, Iraq - The professor sat at his computer, insistently pulling
> up pictures of Basra as the gem it was 30 years and four wars ago. He
> seemed fixated on the past, deflecting questions about the present
> and the future.
>
> After much time, he reluctantly turned from the screen to face a
> visitor and the reality of "the awfulness" of what is happening now.
>
> The day before, the body of Jumhour el-Zergany, his university
> mentor, had been found dumped alongside the road. Zergany had been
> tortured, his arms broken, before his tormentors finally put three
> bullets in his head. His crime, the professor said, was that he had
> converted years before from Shia to Sunni Islam and had dared to hire
> religious Sunni professors in the history department that he chaired.
>
> A police van was seen by witnesses to have stopped Zergany's car at
> the time of his disappearance, and police vehicles and sometimes men
> in police uniforms have been involved in others of the hundreds -
> perhaps as many as 1,000 - assassinations in Basra in the past 18
> months.
>
That's right... They'll drive all the existing "power elite" , including academics out and replace them with the "western political" model of what an Iraqi should be, but only the most current revision will do.
The money to pay the assassins is measured in dollars, not dinars.
The U.S. IS the pre-emminent purveyor of violence in the world today, why stop short of assassination to get our way?
We never have before.
Travus T. Hipp Commentary [ August 26 2005 ]: Tactical Assassination - It's immoral, illegal and impolite, but Hey! It's cheaper than war...
http://leighmdotnet.blogspot.com/2005/08/august-26-2005-travus-t-hipp-morning.html Or: http://snipurl.com/tth_050826 [direct audio]
[ Mp3 Audio 64Kbps Mono 2.3mb 5:03min ]
Leigh www.leighm.net