Chalabi bodyguard killed in Iraq attack

[Barrett808]

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A bodygard of Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Chalabi was killed in an attack on a convoy south of Baghdad, an interior ministry source told AFP.

Chalabi himself however was not aboard the vehicle, Intifadh Qanbar, an official with Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress Party, told AFP.

Unknown gunmen opened fire on the convoy as it was returning from the holy Shiite city of Kerbala, the official said.

Three people were injured in the attack, the official added.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050731/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestchalabi

[Cocoa]

1. a member of Chalabi's militia they should say

if your number of bodyguards numbers in the hundreds, then bodyguard stops being the right word.

[Botany]

2. So was he killed by the rose petals or sweets that "they" were throwing?

I wonder if we can get Wolfie and Rummy to go for a ride w/ Chalabi?

[TahitiNut]

3. (Hmmm) Miller's in jail and somebody 'bush'whacked Chalabi's militia?

I wonder how Chalabi would hold up under the Fascist's 'new and improved' interrogation methods at abu Ghraib and Gitmo.

[Straight Shooter]

4. I wonder if the attackers believed Chalabi was in the convoy. n/t

[NNN0LHI]

5. Who here actually believe the Iraqis voted for Chalabi?

Anyone?

Don

[dArKeR]

6. The only way is if the Iraqis were bribed to vote for this American

[NeoConsSuck]

7. Thank God for this tragedy..

it allowed CNN.COM to bury the story of the 5 USA soldiers killed:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/31/iraq.main/index.html

CNN.COM: Corporate Neocon Network

[WhiteTara]

8. kick

:kick:

[Moderator]

9. kick

[laststeamtrain]

10. AMBUSH ON IRAQ LEADER::Mirror UK reporting assasination attempt on Chalabi

1 August 2005
AMBUSH ON IRAQ LEADER
GUNMEN tried to assassinate Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi yesterday when they ambushed his convoy.
One of his bodyguards was killed in the attack south of Baghdad. It is not thought Chalabi - who backed the US invasion - was in the car.
http://tinyurl.com/amp72

[truth2power]

11. Uh....what to say. Can't think of anything. n/t

[daleo]

12. Chalabi has more lives than a herd of cats. n/t

[saigon68]

25. Like a dead corpse

He keeps floating to the surface

[displacedtexan]

13. The neocons have to take him out...

... before Judith Miller spills the beans about him.

[David Zephyr]

14. Ha!

I thought the same thing, dispacedtexan! ;-)

[Ilsa]

15. You mean the part about him and "Curveball"

lying their asses off to help support starting an illegal and immoral bloody campaign of murder and torture? The stories that the Neocons so willing believed and cited as causus belli?

[displacedtexan]

22. Yep.

Dead men tell no tales.

[MGKrebs]

16. Weird. " It is not thought Chalabi...was in the car".

So what was this, a decoy? The convoy heading out to pick up lunch?
Was Chalabi tipped off? Where WAS Chalabi?

[dbonds]

18. They usually say stuff like this.

It makes the 'opposition' look incompetent, like they never came close to their target.

[IA_Seth]

19. Yep

It comes across better than "Chalabi was believe to be soiling his drawers after the firefight".

I believed they used the same type of misdirection with Bush and the grenade-thrower in Chechnya. They don't like to advertise how easy it WOULD have been.

[Demeter]

17. Kassandra Strikes Again!

This was predicted back in the snows of February--so they missed the first time--there's nothing like persistence. He hasn't much longer to go.

[Straight Shooter]

20. Chalabi is a dead man walking.

I'm sure all his "confidential papers" are in order in case of his execution -- oops, assassination -- oops, rightful smiting by the Mighty Hand of God.

[bribri16]

23. One of his own will set him up for sure. He's getting too arrogant.

Taking lessons from Bush and Condi no doubt.

[Tempest]

21. There's been a lot of attempts on his life

There's been several attempts on his life but the U.S. has been keeping them secret so they don't weaken his position with the Iraqi government.

Hersh reported on this back in April.

[wildwww2]

24. Did Chalabi win the bogus election Iraq had? I thought it was someone

else. This war crime makes everything so confusing. I`ll bet the Iraqi people wish they had Saddam`s crazy ass back in office. And Bu$h Inc. had attacked Saudi Arabia or something.
Peace
Wildman
Al Gore is My President

[MGKrebs]

27. I think Chalabi is #2.

"Chief Assistant to the Assistant Chief" or something like that. Close enough to be able to get in an occassional tug on strings of power though.

[NeoConsSuck]

26. Just like Karzai in Afghanistan..

Chalabi will find a luxurious spider hole to spend the rest of his life in.