Monday, August 02, 2004

Turk executed, trucking company relents

A video posted on the Internet shows a masked gunman pumping three bullets into the head of a Turkish hostage, and the Turkish truckers' union said Monday it would stop bringing supplies to U.S. forces in Iraq, bowing to militant demands in hopes of saving two other captive Turks.
  Boston.com article

Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani said in a statement that Sunday's assaults on Christian churches ''targeted Iraq's unity, stability and independence.''

The unprecedented attacks against Iraq's 750,000-member Christian hitting four churches in Baghdad and one in Mosul appeared to confirm community members' fears they might be targeted as suspected collaborators with American forces amid a rising tide of Islamic fundamentalism.

Preempted, I think is the way George describes it.

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