Iraq's foreign minister vowed Monday not to be intimidated as politicians from around the world expressed sorrow and anger over the killing of the U.S.-appointed president of the Iraqi Governing Council in a suicide car bombing in Baghdad.
Abdel-Zahraa Othman, also known as Izzadine Saleem, was among six Iraqis killed Monday in a car bombing near a U.S. checkpoint. In September, council member Aquila al-Hashimi died five days after gunmen in a pickup truck ambushed her car.
''The Iraqi leaders are the main targets of those terrorists and anti-democratic forces, and we will not be intimidated from continuing our path to build a new Iraq,'' Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said...
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Abdel-Zahraa Othman, also known as Izzadine Saleem, was among six Iraqis killed Monday in a car bombing near a U.S. checkpoint. In September, council member Aquila al-Hashimi died five days after gunmen in a pickup truck ambushed her car.
''The Iraqi leaders are the main targets of those terrorists and anti-democratic forces, and we will not be intimidated from continuing our path to build a new Iraq,'' Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said...
"Isn't that right, George?" he might have said. "They hate freedom and they want to make us lose our resolve, but they will not succeed."
Echoed ad nauseum by Britain and Australia. Otherwise, you might think they were fighting to rid their country of an occupying force.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair's office condemned the killing, saying Saleem and his colleagues had been working ''to give Iraq a future of freedom, democracy and security, all of which are goals rejected by the terrorists.''
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, calling the attackers ''enemies of the Iraqi people,'' said Saleem's death should not deter the transfer of power. ''What this shows is that the terrorists and insurgents in Iraq are trying to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power from the occupiers to the Iraqi people...''
... Prime Minister John Howard, whose country has about 800 troops in and around Iraq, said he was ''horrified'' by a killing that showed some Iraqis were determined to block democracy in Iraq.
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, calling the attackers ''enemies of the Iraqi people,'' said Saleem's death should not deter the transfer of power. ''What this shows is that the terrorists and insurgents in Iraq are trying to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power from the occupiers to the Iraqi people...''
... Prime Minister John Howard, whose country has about 800 troops in and around Iraq, said he was ''horrified'' by a killing that showed some Iraqis were determined to block democracy in Iraq.
Sesame street's success in teaching pre-schoolers was accredited to its use of repetition.
Meanwhile, soldiers and civilians alike, including some Iraqi women working for the coalition, were killed in various other attacks, and the Pentagon is going to redeploy some American troops from South Korea to Iraq.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
