Iraqi Interior Ministry generals arrested in attempted coup.

Post #301,212 by Another Scott 12/17/08 11:02:23 PM Reply	Iraqi Interior Ministry generals arrested in attempted coup. http://www.nytimes.c...iraq.html?_r=1&hp BAGHDAD Â Up to 35 officials in the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior ranking as high as general have been arrested over the past three days with some of them accused of quietly working to reconstitute Saddam HusseinÂs Baath Party, according to senior security officials in Baghdad. The arrests, confirmed by officials from the Ministries of the Interior and National Security as well as the prime ministerÂs office, included four generals, one of whom, Gen. Ahmed Abu Raqeef, is the ministryÂs director of internal affairs. The officials also said that the arrests had come at the hand of an elite counterterrorism force that reports directly to the office of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki. The involvement of the counterterrorism unit speaks to the seriousness of the accusations, and several officials from the Ministries of the Interior and National Security said that some of those arrested were in the early stages of planning a coup. [...] It's hard to imagine that being the last of these alleged plots. Democratic traditions are still far too fragile there. Cheers, Scott.
Post #301,222 by boxley 12/18/08 11:05:28 AM Reply	runup to elections arrest the opposition
Post #301,228 by mhuber 12/18/08 2:30:43 PM Reply	Afraid of one of those Western-style coups, maybe? The kind where the bad guys take over by convincing most of the country to vote for them and then get the votes counted.
Post #301,248 by crazy 12/18/08 7:23:07 PM Reply	Love this stat country as a dictatorship for 35 years, mostly under Mr. Hussein. Tens of thousands of Iraqis died or were persecuted, including Mr. Maliki, a Shiite Muslim, by the Baath Party. It was outlawed after the American invasion in 2003. As opposed to the 100s of thousands who died in the last short 7 years. Wow. Give Bush a few more years and he'll give Stalin a run for his money. Can't call Godwin!
Post #301,244 by Ashton 12/18/08 5:13:47 PM Reply	Baath Baath black sheep, have you any subverside Regime-changing bomb-throwers? Seems that, the hurrier-they-get --> towards Capit(ulation)alismo Muricano-satellite-style <-- the behinder they get (?) Love. It. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. -- H.L. Mencken

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