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To: Rick Faurot who wrote (32929)	12/17/2003 9:07:54 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Thanks for the heads-up. Just saw the report on CBS. lurqer

To: Rick Faurot who wrote (32929)	12/18/2003 8:46:53 AM
From: Rick Faurot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Iraqi Insurgents Kill U.S. Soldier in Baghdad Thu December 18, 2003 07:34 AM ET (Page 1 of 2) By Nadim Ladki BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi guerrillas killed a U.S. soldier in an ambush in Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Thursday, as two assassinations underlined fears that internal political divisions could erupt into widespread bloodletting. The soldier's death on Wednesday night was the first combat fatality suffered by U.S. troops since news on Sunday of the capture of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and the 199th since Washington declared major combat over on May 1. In a further example of the violence that has gripped Iraq since Saddam's capture, an official of the largest Shi'ite Muslim group was killed by Saddam loyalists on Wednesday. A representative of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) said Muhannad al-Hakim had been shot dead near his home in Baghdad's Amil district, after receiving death threats from Saddam supporters. The SCIRI official added that in a separate incident, an angry crowd in the southern city of Najaf had attacked and killed Ali al-Zalimi, an official of Saddam's Baath party who played a role in crushing an uprising by Iraqi Shi'ites after the 1991 Gulf War. RELATED ARTICLES CHRONOLOGY-Recent Major Bomb Attacks in Iraq Bidding for Iraq Contracts Delayed Again "People surrounded him with guns, and proceeded to shoot and beat him," the official said, calling the killers: "residents of Najaf who recognized this criminal." Political violence has flared among Iraq's Shi'ites, who make up 60 percent of the population, since the fall of Saddam, whose government killed numerous religious leaders of a community he regarded as a fifth column linked to Shi'ite Iran. SCIRI leader Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer al-Hakim was killed along with about 80 others in August when a car bomb ripped through one of Shi'ism's holiest shrines, where Hakim had just led worshippers in prayer. DEADLY AMBUSH A U.S. spokeswoman said a soldier from the 1st Armored Division died in an ambush in the al-Karradah neighborhood of Baghdad at 10:30 p.m. (1930 GMT) on Wednesday. Another soldier and an Iraqi translator were wounded. U.S. forces swept into the town of Samarra for a second day to flush out guerrillas from the so-called Sunni triangle in northern and central Iraq where Saddam had his power base. Eighty six people have been arrested in the past 48 hours. Continued ... reuters.com

To: Rick Faurot who wrote (32929)	12/18/2003 8:50:51 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

"Kean promises major revelations in public testimony beginning next month from top officials in the FBI, CIA, Defense Department, National Security Agency and, maybe, President Bush and former President Clinton.' Fat chance......... time for a plane crash..... T

To: Rick Faurot who wrote (32929)	12/18/2003 1:26:45 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

"How is it possible we have a national security advisor (Condoleezza Rice)coming out and saying we had no idea they could use planes as weapons when we had FBI records from 1991 stating that this is a possibility," said Kristen Breitweiser, one of four New Jersey widows who lobbied Congress and the president to appoint the commission. Rice received two memos about this and was orally briefed in August 2001 that just this scenario was imminent. The Bush gang failed the American public and are now opportuning themselves of that event at every turn.