Re: Sunnis will never rule Iraq again
- From: "Acharya" <harinam108@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 09:59:27 GMT
"LDillman@xxxxxx" <Xanence@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The results of the election in Iraq are final and show an overwhelming
> disregard for the politics of the Sunni minority that once helped
> support the dictatorial power of Saddam Hussein.
>
> The Sunnis are naturally angry at this outcome. I suppose the rabid
> followers of Saddam Hussein and Hitler have this in common. Both were
> so very upset at the downfall of their masters.
>
> Too bad, so sad, from Baghdad.
>
>
> ******
>
> By Jonathan Finer
> Washington Post Foreign Service
> Thursday, December 29, 2005
>
> BAGHDAD, Dec. 28 -- The top U.N. elections official in Iraq said
> Wednesday that the country's heavily criticized parliamentary election
> was "transparent, credible and good" and that he saw no reason to
> rerun it.
>
> The statement by Craig Jenness, a U.N. special commissioner, was the
> strongest independent endorsement of an election that has sparked
> accusations of rampant fraud and threats of increased insurgent
> violence during near-daily protests in cities across the country.
>
> Jenness called the number of complaints "low" but acknowledged that
> "not all candidates will be satisfied" with the results. He said,
> however, that "we at the United Nations see no justification in calls
> for a rerun."
>
> Iraqi election commissioners said Wednesday that their lives had been
> endangered by those fomenting anger over the results. "It is
> encouraging some terrorists to take personal revenge on the commission
> members by threatening to kill and kidnap them and their families,"
> Hendawi said.
>
> Sunni Arabs, who occupied most top posts in the government of Saddam
> Hussein, represent an estimated 20 percent of the population. But they
> make up a majority of Iraq's insurgency, and their involvement in the
> political process is widely considered critical to stemming the
> violence.
>
> In Samarra, about 65 miles north of Baghdad, a few thousand
> demonstrators gathered to condemn the elections. Some carried photos
> of Sunni leaders or of Hussein carrying a rifle, and they waved
> banners that read: "Forgery in the election is treason."
>
> "If they don't respond to our demands, we shall show them things they
> have never seen before," Ahmad Mahdi Dhaye, a cleric and member of the
> Association of Muslim Scholars, a leading Sunni religious group, told
> the crowd.
Ahmad Mahdi Dhaye and his terrorist clones should be arrested for inciting
violence. Their misinterpretation of Islam IS murder, terrorism, and
irreligion.
.
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