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From the Washington Post: Insurgents Paid; Police, Soldiers Targeted, by John Ward Anderson, Monday, March 27, 2006, page A12
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BAGHDAD, March 26 — A doctor has admitted killing at least 35 Iraqi police officers and army soldiers by giving them lethal injections, reopening their wounds or engaging in other deadly acts while they were being treated at a hospital in the northern city of Kirkuk, according to Kurdish security sources and Kurdish television.
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Kurdish television broadcast on Sunday what it said was the doctor’s taped confession, in which he told police that he sympathized with the radical Sunni Arab insurgent group Ansar al-Sunna. He said that the group paid him to kill the men and that he did it because “I hate the Americans and what they’ve done to Iraq.”
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“I injected more than 35 policemen and soldiers, including officers and some who were slightly injured,” the doctor, identified by a Kurdish security official as Luay Omar Taie, said in the taped statement. “I used to stop the breathing machines or cut the electricity in the operations room or reopen the wounds.”
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A senior official with the police intelligence agency of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), who declined to be quoted by name, confirmed the details of the case, which was first reported by the Independent newspaper in London. The circumstances of the alleged confession, including whether it might have been coerced, could not be verified.
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Taie was arrested following the detention of members of a criminal gang with links to Ansar al-Sunna. The gang is responsible for kidnapping more than 150 people and executing 18 of them, the PUK intelligence official said. Arrests of insurgents soon followed.
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During interrogations, the insurgents identified Taie as a doctor who had treated them. The organization selected Taie because he was young and wanted money, the official said.
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In the statement aired on Kurdish television, the doctor said he was paid up to $100 for each act he committed. He asserted responsibility for killing the assistant police chief in Kirkuk, Gen. Ajman Abdullah, with a fatal injection and said he also killed the general’s brother, a soldier who was admitted to the hospital after being wounded by a roadside bomb.
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The doctor said he helped a wounded insurgent escape from the hospital. The intelligence official said Taie also advised insurgents on how to forge documents to claim that U.S. forces had shot their members, so that they could be treated at a hospital in Mosul, about 100 miles away.
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I wonder why the name Dr. Josef Mengele kept coming to mind as I was reading this.
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It is interesting to me that in their resistance to Americans and other Westerners, the Muslims insist on killing each other.
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I’m not complaining, mind you - I just find it interesting. I suppose that’s safer than confronting an American Soldier.
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March 27th, 2006 at 12:53 pm
I wish we had 20/20 foresight. There are so many different ways in which we are being attacked, and this is one that which could have been watched for. Yes, Iraqi doctor killing Iraqis; looking back it seems so obvious-now we can only be on guard for another nurse or doctor or whatever who may be part of the problem. I don’t feel comfortable labeling them an insurgency, as that seems almost as innocent a label as ‘dissident’or ‘resistance fighter’-too romantic a title. These are murderers who would rather that the new country of Iraq commit suicide than go West. They are not interested in building a new country-those few that share that ideal have already joined the political process. These are the murderers spurred on by Iran and Syria who do not want a democracy as a neighbor, for fear that the Iraqi freedoms established will ultimately bring down their own regimes.
So it is called a civil war by the CNNs and Al Jazeeras of the media, when actually the war upon Iraq is initiated by Iran and Syria. They’re playing the same tricks here in America.
I have my own ideas about why, but notice that there are riots all of a sudden in America by latinos in large numbers protesting immigration reforms. I suggest that the demonstrations are being organized in part so that there are large crowds to be photo-opped, showing that America is in turmoil-whether it is used by the Democrats to show weakness by the Republican leadership before the upcoming elections, or are broadcast on Al Jazeera mischaracterizing the events (or both)-the riots weren’t happening like this a week ago;they are being organized for some political reason. I don’t buy into the idea that these thousands of latinos all of a sudden are so enraged by immigration reform that they have decided to protest in large numbers.
I’ve already read leftist blogs cheering on the demonstrations. The catch phrase seems to be “Nation of Immigrants” as John Kennedy wrote a book of that title–though even he would have suggested that immigrants pursuing the American Dream must assimilate to American culture. Latinos who do not assimilate, Muslims who do not assimilate, are seeking to remain separate in a land made strongest by integrating all of us (US) into Americans.
We are a nation of Former immigrants.
Now stepping off the soabox to give someone else a chance.
March 27th, 2006 at 8:15 pm
“I wonder why the name Dr. Josef Mengele kept coming to mind as I was reading this.”
You too, huh? It’s absolutely chilling. The thought also went through my mind of “not again!” but it never seems to stop. When are the sheeples going to wake up?? And let the sheepdogs do their job.
March 27th, 2006 at 8:42 pm
All the NewS NoT fit to PrinT…
Funny, I must have missed this headline in my local newspaper..
Come to think of it,in my local news report, radio newscast,…or even on the World Wide Web (of deceit)…….
“U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq have distributed more than 1,000 free whe….
March 28th, 2006 at 1:04 pm
Beth, I just noticed you have a link to the ‘Cluetrain Manifesto’-
cool in a corner with a nice cup of coffee-meaning “Cool”. I first read it when a prof in college had us check it out. It tied in well with our ‘Collaborative Computing’ class.
Have a great day.
March 28th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
Doug - I would love to take credit for that - but it came with the blog template
Thanks anyway
April 3rd, 2006 at 9:02 pm
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