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To: steve harris who wrote (223158)	3/9/2005 9:12:58 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575426

Another bad day for the GOP................ Democracy in Iraq means the freedom to bomb whomever and whatever you want. ********************************************** Posted on Wed, Mar. 09, 2005 Bombing kills 3, injures contractors** BY SHATHA AL AWSY AND YASSER SALIHEE Knight Ridder Newspapers BAGHDAD, Iraq - A pre-dawn suicide bombing rattled Baghdad Wednesday, killing three Iraqis and injuring dozens of foreign contractors, Iraqi government workers and civilians in an apparent attack on a hotel where the contractors were staying. Later in the day, the Minister of Planning survived an assassination attempt, but two of his bodyguards were killed in the gunfight. An American soldier also was killed in Baghdad when a roadside bomb exploded as his patrol passed. By day's end, there were conflicting reports about a pair of mass graves containing the bodies of as many as 41 people, many of them reportedly Iraqi soldiers, in two cities outside the capital. A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense said he couldn't confirm any of the reports and that he'd only heard about them from the news. Officials at the morgue in one of the cities denied that anyone had been killed there. Wednesday's violence highlighted the danger of being anywhere near foreigners or associated with Iraq's American-backed government. At about 5 a.m., Abdullatif Khadum was opening his small shop a few yards from the Sadeer Hotel when he saw two men dressed as police walk past him and execute an Iraqi security guard at a checkpoint into the complex the hotel shares with the Ministry of Agriculture. Khadum ran inside and grabbed his two daughters out of their beds. Moments later, the blast from a massive car bomb hidden in a garbage truck rained rubble down on his daughters' beds. He huddled in his home as gunfire ripped through the neighborhood not far from Firduz Square, where 23 months ago U.S. troops pulled down a statue of Saddam Hussein. "I took my daughters downstairs and went looking for my wife, who was trapped with a fractured leg after the roof collapsed," Khadum said as he picked through the rubble of his home and small store. "I think they were targeting the hotel where people say Americans and Israelis live." Later, the group al-Qaida in Iraq took responsibility for the bombing in a statement posted on the Internet, saying the hotel was targeted "after we discovered that there is a complete staff of Jewish and Israeli intelligence in this hotel." The veracity of the claim couldn't be confirmed, and the nationalities of the foreign contractors were unclear. continued.............. kansascity.com

To: steve harris who wrote (223158)	3/10/2005 9:03:08 AM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575426

No relation that I know of... Good for you. How would you have handled the Conventry episode? Tough men making tough choices... This may come as a surprise to you but let me recoup some facts here: On May 11, 1940 the British war cabinet decided to initiate attacks on military and industrial targets behind the German lines. It was well understood that some "collateral damage" would thus have to be accepted. RAF then attacked Munich on Aug 2, 1940 and Hannover on August 25 and proceeded from there bombing further German cities. Even British historians are surprised that Hitler did not immediately retaliate. Lidell Hart: "Hitler showed a remarkable hesitation in action by not retaliating against British cities while still at the summit of his powers". The reason for that being that he spent a lot of time and effort on trying to come to a truce with the British in order to prevent any further mutual bombing of cities. The bomb attack on Coventry did thus not follow until 14.-15. November, 1940 Taro