Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Idea Of The Day -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JEB who wrote (43131)	8/20/2002 1:38:37 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 50167

Palestinian guerrilla chief Abu Nidal was killed or committed suicide when Iraqi security men confronted him over his anti-government activity, a senior Palestinian source said Tuesday.

To: JEB who wrote (43131)	8/24/2002 1:01:28 PM
From: JEB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Will Germany send them to their deaths? Suspects Held in Iraq Embassy Grab Aug 24, 10:15 AM (ET) BERLIN (AP) - German police said Saturday they have detained two men suspected of links to five Iraqis who occupied their country's embassy in Berlin and took its two top diplomats there hostage. Hamburg police said they took both men into custody in the city Friday, but refused to give details. One suspect, an Iraqi businessman who has lived in Hamburg for 25 years, is thought to have sent faxes to news organizations during Tuesday's standoff claiming responsibility in the name of the Democratic Iraqi Opposition of Germany, the newsmagazine Der Spiegel reported. He also called police from his mobile phone to inform them of the hostage-taking, Der Spiegel said. In the faxes, the previously unknown dissident group said it sought the overthrow of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. "The idea was ours," Der Spiegel magazine quoted the businessman as saying, identifying him only as Abu Quasi A. The other suspect was detained in Hamburg after investigators found that four of the accused hostage-takers named him as a reference during interviews with German authorities on their asylum applications, the newspaper Die Welt reported. Police commandos stormed the embassy in a western Berlin neighborhood after a five-hour standoff Tuesday, freeing Iraq's acting ambassador, Shamil Mohammed, and his designated successor, Muaead Hussain. The two men were bound with tape and held at gunpoint by the assailants, who were armed with a loaded pistol, two tear gas guns, a hatchet and a stun gun. An Iraqi man and his German wife who had been at the embassy also were taken captive but almost immediately released, suffering from the effects of the tear gas. Five Iraqis were taken into custody. They had all applied for asylum over the past two years and were living at a hostel for asylum seekers outside Berlin. Four of the refugees told their interviewers they had been "suppressed" and briefly arrested in Iraq, though they also claimed to have relatives "in high positions" in Iraq, Die Welt reported, quoting from the asylum office's files. The Iraqis said they had been urged to flee abroad by "their organization, 'Enemies of Saddam,'" the report said. apnews.excite.com