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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jane4IceCream who wrote (87442)	11/26/2007 9:50:01 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

I hope the biscuit didnt slip on a banana peel or something.....he's been relatively quiet. His quiet is a sure indicator that things are winding down in Iraq. Either that or they finally got his meds adjusted correctly....

To: Jane4IceCream who wrote (87442)	12/5/2007 9:03:35 AM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Of course, things are "winding down" in Iraq. Basra women fear militants behind wave of killings Reuters Tuesday, December 4, 2007; 7:40 PM BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Women in Iraq's southern city of Basra are living in fear. More than 40 have been killed and their bodies dumped in the streets in the past five months for behavior deemed un-Islamic, the city's police chief says. A warning scrawled in red on a wall threatens any woman who wears makeup or appears in public without an Islamic headscarf with dire punishment. "Whoever disobeys will be punished. God is our witness that we have conveyed this message," it says. Women in the Shi'ite city are convinced hardline Islamic militants are behind the killings and say they fear going out without a headscarf. "Some women were killed with their children," Basra police chief, Major-General Abdul-Jalil Khalaf, told Reuters. "One with a six-year-old child, another with an 11-year-old." Khalaf, who was sent to Iraq's second-largest city in June with a mandate to get tough on criminals, said he did not know who the perpetrators were but vowed to catch them. Rita Anwar, a 27-year-old Christian, said she was thinking of leaving Basra, or even Iraq, altogether. "You would not believe that I also wear the headscarf sometimes. It is terrifying to read this graffiti in red threatening murder," she said. During the long rule of Saddam Hussein, who suppressed Islamists, Iraqi women in urban areas enjoyed some of the most casual dress codes in the Middle East.