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To: GST who wrote (114889)	9/15/2003 12:58:50 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 281500

Did anyone post yet on the assassination of the police chief in Khaldiya?: Filed at 12:29 p.m. ET KHALDIYA, Iraq (AP) -- Three gunmen, their faces covered with red and white Arab headdresses, assassinated the police chief of this Sunni Triangle town Monday in an ambush at a traffic circle. Col. Khedeir Mekhalef Ali, 48, the Khaldiya police chief, was shot at least 25 times, according to his driver, who was wounded in the attack along with Ali's bodyguard. Ali was driving to his home in Fallujah, about 50 miles west of Baghdad, when the assailants ambushed his vehicle as it slowed at the traffic circle. The three attackers opened fire with a machine gun, shot one of the tires of the chief's car and then approached the vehicle and shot him, said his driver, 47-year-old Rabia'a Kamash. He spoke to The Associated Press at the Fallujah General Hospital were he was being treated for wounds to his head and shoulder. Bodyguard Fouad Issa, 40, wounded in the shoulder and back was also being treated at the hospital. He said police have frequently come under attack because they are seen as being associated with the American occupation force. American forces withdrew from Khaldiya two months ago, leaving local police to provide security. ``Lately the colonel had been actively pursuing a gang of car thieves who had repeatedly threatened to kill him,'' said Khaldiya police officer Ahmed Joma'a. Other members of the force said someone in Khaldiya had been shelling the station recently, apparently because the force was seen as having cooperated with the U.S.-led occupation force. Mekhalef, a former Iraqi army officer, had been police chief two months. Same story, from Reuters: Iraqi Police Chief Shot Dead in Rebellious Town By REUTERS Filed at 12:15 p.m. ET KHALDIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Unknown attackers shot dead an Iraqi police chief Monday at a flashpoint town in the heartland of resistance to the U.S.-led occupation, police and witnesses said. Colonel Khudair Mukhlif, chief of police in Khaldiya, a town west of Baghdad in the U.S.-labeled ``Sunni Triangle,'' was shot while driving his car at around 2 p.m. Advertisement Three other policemen in the car were wounded in the attack on a road leading out of town, said Khaldiya police officer Mohammed Awad. Iraqi guerrillas have launched a campaign of resistance in the Sunni Triangle, the heartland of support for deposed leader Saddam Hussein. They have targeted not only U.S. soldiers but also Iraqis seen as cooperating with the occupying forces, such as the police. In nearby Ramadi, seven policemen were killed in a roadside bomb attack in July. Last month, a car bomb struck the Baghdad police headquarters, killing one officer in a suspected assassination attempt on the city's police chief.

To: GST who wrote (114889)	9/15/2003 1:00:39 PM
From: jerry manning	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

What is really amusing...and sad...is your inability to comprehend the written word. Message 19306390 Message 19305520 I am finished with you. Have a nice hate-filled day.

To: GST who wrote (114889)	9/15/2003 3:47:56 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

Our War's Mistaken Premise _______________________________ by Benjamin R. Barber* Published on Sunday, September 14, 2003 by the Washington Post commondreams.org <<...The president's policies meet fear with fear, trying to "shock and awe" adversaries into submission. But fear is terrorism's medium, not ours. Democracies that respect the rule of law cannot win wars unilaterally and in defiance of international law -- not when the enemy has no policy but chaos, no end but annihilation (including its own). Harry Truman once said that all war prevents is peace. Preventive war has neither created peace nor preempted terrorism. The intelligence and police cooperation that the Bush administration has quietly been engaged in has, to the contrary, had more success. But it is directed at terrorists, not rogue states, and it has succeeded through the very cooperation and multilateralism that unilateral preventive war undermines. Pursuing preventive war at a growing cost in American lives and money against regimes the Bush administration doesn't like or countries that brutalize their own people may appeal to American virtue, but it undermines American security. The only proper way the United States can honor both its national interests and those who have died in this war and its aftermath is to abandon its failed preventive war doctrine and rejoin the world it has tried in vain to pacify through unilateral preemptive force...>> *Benjamin R. Barber is the Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society at the University of Maryland and a principal of the Democracy Collaborative. He is author of "Jihad vs. McWorld" and "Fear's Empire: Terrorism, War and Democracy."