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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Chas. who wrote (14320)	7/22/2006 2:20:52 PM
From: ILCUL8R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Well said! I put richnorth on ignore many months ago and a poll to ban him caused him to go away in a snit. But, he has come back. Time to ignore him -- totally! Also, I would say the same thing for American Spirit and len grasso. Ignore them . . .

To: Chas. who wrote (14320)	7/22/2006 3:18:45 PM
From: Richnorth	Respond to of 32591

You have changed your moniker, and you seem to be back pedalling. Hhhhmmmm, very interesting! ---------------------------------------------------- Iraqi parliament demands U.S. withdrawal 7/22/2006 1:00:00 PM GMT "What has been done in Iraq is a kind of butchery of the Iraqi people," Mashhadani said Iraq's parliament speaker Mahmoud Mashhadani slammed the U.S. invading Army over civilian deaths in Iraq, accusing the American troops of "butchery" and demanding an immediate end to the occupation of the country. "Just get your hands off Iraq and the Iraqi people and Muslim countries, and everything will be all right," Mashhadani said during a speech at the opening of a UN-sponsored conference on transitional justice and reconciliation in Baghdad, attended by UN officials, foreign experts, Iraqi politicians and civil society representatives. "What has been done in Iraq is a kind of butchery of the Iraqi people," he said. Yesterday the U.S. occupation forces killed six Iraqi civilians, including two women and a young girl, during a raid on a building the U.S. troops claimed they thought was “a suspected insurgent hideout”. The attack, which took place in Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, also wounded 20 other people. Residents accused the U.S. Army of excessive force, saying there was no need to fire missiles, bombs or artillery shells at residential areas. “They demolished three houses with children in them just because they wanted two insurgents?’’ asked Raad Dahlaki, chief of the municipal council in Baqouba. “Why couldn’t they just detain the men?” Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, a U.S. military spokesman, said American forces used “aerial fires'’ to attack a number of houses in Baqouba after they were shot at from rooftops. Mashhadani, a member of the main Sunni Arab parliamentary bloc, the National Concord Front, a member of Maliki's national unity government, further accused the U.S. soldiers of keeping Iraqis waiting at checkpoints for long hours do give a chance for their bomb-sniffing dogs get some rest. "The sleep of American dogs is more important than people being stopped in the street for hours," he said. Meanwhile, top U.S. commander for the Middle East, Gen. John P. Abizaid, announced plans for deploying additional troops to Iraq. It hasn’t been made clear yet if the recent surge of what the media refers to as “sectarian attacks” will result in the U.S. commanders’ modification of their plans for troop reductions.