Suspected Saddam executioner caught

CNN ^ | 10/03/03 | David Ensor et al

[Coop]

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S.-led coalition troops arrested a man authorities identified as a suspected executioner for Saddam Hussein in a raid north of Baghdad, and four Iraqis were killed in suspicious blasts, a U.S. military spokesman said Friday.

The suspect and another man, described as a former general, were seized in an overnight raid in Ba'qubah, a town more than 30 miles (48 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad. The men's identities were not released.

[Coop]

More good news today.

[Frank_Discussion]

"...two Iraqis were killed in a blast. Authorities said they suspect the Iraqis might have been trying to place a bomb on a roadside."

More proof they've been training the Pelestinians... :-)

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[Coop]

From same CNN article:
Other developments
• The U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority and the Iraqi Interior Ministry said Friday that they will be opening an Iraqi police training facility in Jordan and hope to train 35,000 new police officers in the neighboring Arab country within two years. The cadets will be Iraqis who have not previously served on the police force. The first 500 cadets will begin their training at the end of November. The trainees will undergo an eight-week course.

• Electrical service in Iraq has been restored nearly to the level of power generated before the war, U.S. officials said Friday. Electrical power generation in Iraq was at a postwar peak Thursday, when output reached 4,200 megawatts, according to U.S. military sources. Before the war, average power generation was 4,400 megawatts.

• An Iraqi judge ordered the confiscation of nearly 2,300 metric tons of Iraqi oil and two tankers suspected of trying to smuggle the material out of the country, the Coalition Provisional Authority said Friday. A coalition naval task force seized the two vessels, the Saudi Gizan and the Manara II, in August in the Persian Gulf. The move allows the Iraqi Finance Ministry to dispose of the vessels and oil, the coalition, and any proceeds would go to the Central Bank of Iraq.

[Dog Gone]

I wasn't aware that Iraqi judges were in place. Even more good news!

[VOA]

I wasn't aware that Iraqi judges were in place. Even more good news!

Looks like the press censors/propagand officers at CNN are having a three-day weekend.
That's about the simplest explanation for this sort of positive news slipping out
of Iraq to the USA.

[null and void]

The poor dears are too distracted and distressed by the Kaleeefornya election...

[Coop]

I forget what the percentage was, but some huge number (85-90%, maybe?) of courts in Iraq were functioning again. I may have seen that in one of Paul Bremer's statements.

[BOBTHENAILER]

I would imagine the executioner is a little nervous just about now. Thanks for the great news post.

[Billthedrill]

Fire up the shredder...

[RetiredArmy]

Did the US congress have to approve them? If so, they are liberal because as we all know if they were otherwise, they would still be holding them up!!!

[boxerblues]

two Iraqis were killed in a blast. Authorities said they suspect the Iraqis might have been trying to place a bomb on a roadside.

good job...save our guys the trouble of doing

[Poohbah]

Premature jihadulation is VERY embarrassing.

[Frank_Discussion]

LOL!! Did you just make that up? Man, I'm cosidering stealing that for my tagline!

"Premature jihadulation" indeed!

[Poohbah]

It's about a year or so old.

"Suicide bombers! Are you embarrassed by premature jihadulation? Call today for confidential help!"

I'm also the guy who, when he found out that the physics of suicide bombing meant that the guy's head went (generally intact) up into the air, posted after a premature detonation:

"JUMP BALL!"

[Dilbert56]

Do you think our guys might have discovered the signal to detonate?

[Poohbah]

Some of these devices aren't remote-detonated. Probably the bomber got a little clumsy and accidentally hit the "goat turd."

[blackie]

We're smoking them out and rounding them up, one at a time.

[Coop]

We're smoking them out and rounding them up, one at a time.

Or in this case, we got 5 captures and a couple of terminations all at once. Nice work by our coalition forces!

[Frank_Discussion]

hehehehehe!!! Ya killin' me!

[paulklenk]

Oooh, strap that joke to a Palestinian!

[blackie]

The more the merrier. :-/

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

We're smoking them out and rounding them up, one at a time, ping! (^;

This is great. Troops took out major bad guys and their weapons. CENTCOM's too busy conducting raids to inform us, I guess. Sigh. I miss their security reports. Counting on AP for details? Nah. Preliminary good news...o.k..

 Thanks, Tonkin!

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[OldFriend]

Bring back that hunky Brig. General! He was one cool customer!

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[ellery]

Premature jihadulation!!! Between this and the Kordell Stewart thread, the FReeper Friday funny bone has my stomach hurting.

[PhilDragoo]

Do you think our guys might have discovered the signal to detonate?

An Israeli robot drags a critically injured Palestinian suicide bomber whose bomb exploded prematurely, demanding, "What's the frequency, Kenneth?"

Got your jump ball right here viewer discretion advised.

[windchime]

Bump!