Iraqi party protests at shooting

[Praxius]

Iraqi party protests at shooting
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraqi party protests at shooting

The largest Sunni party in Iraq says it is suspending all official contacts with US civilian and military personnel after the killing of a man in Fallujah.


The Iraqi Islamic Party said the dead man was one of its senior members and that he had been killed during a joint US-Iraqi raid on Friday.

The party alleged that the raid had been politically motivated.

The US military acknowledge that one man was killed and another arrested during a raid in the city.

Fallujah was the scene of heavy fighting four years ago but has become more peaceful since the US military and local tribes started co-operating in 2006.

In a statement on its website, the Iraqi Islamic Party said that a senior party member had been killed in his bed, and five others had been arrested, during a raid in the Halabsa area of Fallujah.

"The hidden political motive behind this incident is clear," it said.

As a consequence, the party had "decided to suspend all official contacts with the Americans, both military and civilians, until the party receives a reasonable explanation about what happened, along with an official apology".

It also demanded an assurance that those responsible would be punished, compensation for the victims and the release of the five detainees.
According to the US military, US-backed Iraqi soldiers killed an armed man who had opened fire when they went to arrest a "wanted insurgent leader suspected of training roadside bomb cells", the Associated Press reports.

Things are getting worse..... again.

 

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Iraqi party protests at shooting
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraqi party protests at shooting



Things are getting worse..... again.

Did they really ever get better?

 

[Praxius]

Did they really ever get better?

No not really, but I ran out of my US bashing quota for the day.

But In regards to it improving or not, based on all the information provided by the US, things were actually "Getting Better" whatever that means..... pulling this sort of stunt and the largest Sunni party pulling out because of it, sure isn't going to make things better and there is a potiential of whatever scraps of "things getting better" they had will be gone soon enough.

 

[EagleSmack]

You are so jealous of us. You obsess over the US. No wonder why some Canadians have an identity problem.

 

[Praxius]

You are so jealous of us. You obsess over the US. No wonder why some Canadians have an identity problem.

You got anything else to post other then your desired gay tendancies towards me somehow moving down to be your lover?

There is no identity problem and there is certainly no obsession existing..... I post the news.... you guys seem to make up the majority of it..... I post it.... I give my opinion.... I move on.

By all means grow out of your central mentality that everybody somehow wants to be just like you..... even when they're saying everything opposite of that..... it shows you have a mental condition of avoiding the truth.