NEWS REPORT: Iraqi officials arrested for plotting to revive Hussein party
TrueLoveIn2008
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This is really a shame. After all the work that we and other countries have done - it seems to have not made a difference to some people ... some that were supposed to be leading the country in a new direction. I guess the old adage is true ... you can lead a horse to water ...
BAGHDAD – More than 20 employees of Iraq's Ministry of the Interior have been arrested on allegations that they were plotting to revive Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath party, government officials said Thursday.
Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf told reporters that 23 people had been arrested over the past five days in a Baath Party plot but he dismissed suggestions they were planning a coup.
Another security official put the figure at 25 and said a brigadier general in the traffic police was the highest-ranking figure. Most are low-level ministry employees, he said
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Like you said... it stinks because so many countries have spent so much time, money and effort to try to help them and this is what happens
TrueLoveIn2008
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I think that we have made progress with many people there. I think the citizens understand that democracy is better than Saddam. But for people in the GOVERNMENT to turn on it??? How very sad. Those people put their faith in a new government, new leaders, and some of them are failing them in such a terrible way. It's one thing if you fail because it just didn't work, but for it to fail because the ideology's not there ... terrible if you ask me. What was the last 4 years for???
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Did anyone watch the miniseries HBO did on him? GOOD!
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Did anyone watch the miniseries HBO did on him? GOOD!
I watched it on Sunday, 4hrs str8, it is really a good watch.
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Posted by anneandchris
Did anyone watch the miniseries HBO did on him? GOOD!
I watched it on Sunday, 4hrs str8, it is really a good watch.
I watched it for two hours straight -- from 12-2 am. I don't usually watch things like that but it really ****** me in!
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Posted by anneandchris
Did anyone watch the miniseries HBO did on him? GOOD!
I watched it on Sunday, 4hrs str8, it is really a good watch.
I watched it for two hours straight -- from 12-2 am. I don't usually watch things like that but it really ****** me in!
I wonder what his wife and daughters are up to now, and I didnt even remember that his sons were killed as well until I saw it @ the end of the movie.
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Posted by anneandchris
Did anyone watch the miniseries HBO did on him? GOOD!
I watched it on Sunday, 4hrs str8, it is really a good watch.
I watched it for two hours straight -- from 12-2 am. I don't usually watch things like that but it really ****** me in!
I wonder what his wife and daughters are up to now, and I didnt even remember that his sons were killed as well until I saw it @ the end of the movie.
I haven't heard much about the wife and daughters though I vaguely remember reading that they testified against him or something like that. Yes I remembered the sons getting killed -- though I felt bad for the grandson. But that is the kind of world they were living in that they women fled with all the other children but left him behind to fight with his father. CRAZY!
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Add this news report to the fire:
WASHINGTON – FBI agents on temporary assignment in Iraq billed an average of $45,000 in overtime and extra pay for eating, watching movies and going to cocktail parties in some cases, the Justice Department reported Thursday.
The audit by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine concluded the FBI improperly used overtime and other premium pay allowances for employees sent to war zones.
Between 2003 and 2007, the FBI spent $63 million in overtime and extra pay for employees in Iraq, the report found. Of that, $7.8 million was improperly billed.
'Several FBI employees noted that they periodically spent time during the work day washing clothes,' the report noted. 'Questioned whether he should have been paid for the time spent in this activity, one employee defended the practice, saying 'when you're in that environment, anything you do to survive is work for the FBI.''
Other agents defended being paid to go to a regular Saturday night cocktail party, calling it an important 'liaison' meeting.
'We found that, on the whole, few if any employees worked exactly 16 hours a day, every day, for 90 days straight, within the meaning of the term 'work' as it is used in applicable regulations and policies,' the report concluded.
