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To: LindyBill who wrote (84798)11/8/2004 8:19:37 AM
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COMMAND POST - Foreign "Fighters" Shown on Iraqi TV
By Alan Brain on Media

From Reuters via the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) : A number of prisoners, said to be foreign fighters, have been paraded on television in Iraq.According to officials the 19 men were among more than 160 people taken into custody during recent raids. They are alleged to have entered Iraq illegally and were planning suicide bomb attacks. Most of the prisoners said they came from Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Egypt, but only one said he had gone to Iraq to fight the Americans....

Iraqi minister berates Annan
By Michele

Iraq’s interim defense minister Hazem Sha’alan has lashed out at U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and leaders of other Arab countries during a pep talk for Iraqi troops before an expected assault on the insurgent-held city of Falluja.Annan warned in a letter dated October 31 to the United States, Britain and Iraq that such an assault would have a “negative impact” on the prospects for elections, now scheduled for January. But Sha’alan said on Sunday that Annan did nothing to help Iraqis under the rule of ousted leader Saddam Hussein. “Where was Kofi Annan when Saddam was slaughtering the Iraqis like sheep?” Sha’alan said. “Where were the calls we hear from Arab and Islamic countries when Saddam was messing up the country?”
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