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"Christian priest shot dead in Baghdad"
"by Kim Gamel, Associated Press | April 6, 2008
BAGHDAD - An Assyrian Orthodox priest was shot to death yesterday by gunmen using silencers as the Christian cleric and his wife returned home after a trip to the market in Baghdad.
The latest attack against Iraq's Christian minority drew a new plea from Pope Benedict XVI for Iraqis to "find the way of peace to build a just and tolerant society."
You know what, Pope?
They had that before the crusading Anti-Christ George W. Bush decided to set foot in Babylon!
Sigh!
The Rev. Youssef Adel, 47, had tried to escape the sectarian violence, fleeing the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Dora at a time when insurgents were burning down churches and uprooting Christians from their homes on threat of death.
Yeah, who could that have been?
After centuries of living together before AmeriKa got there?
Could it be these guys?
Or these? Or these? Or these? Or these? Or these?
You get the point, readers?
El-STINKO!!!!
He moved with his wife, Lamia, to a relatively safe area in the mostly Shi'ite central district of Karradah and presided over services at the nearby St. Peter and Paul church, according to an assistant who spoke on condition of anonymity because of security concerns.
El-STINKO!
But in a vivid example of the dangers that continue to face Iraqis despite a sharp drop in violence, Adel was shot to death near the gate of his house, another priest in the same church said, also declining to be identified for fear of becoming a target.
Adel's wife did not realize what happened until she saw her husband collapse, the priest said.
In a separate development yesterday, a civilian contractor working for the US military in Iraq was charged with aggravated assault under military law, the first such prosecution since the Vietnam War, the US command said yesterday.
Alaa Mohammad Ali, who holds dual Iraqi-Canadian citizenship, is the first person facing criminal charges since Congress in 2006 gave the military authority to prosecute crimes committed by civilians working for the armed forces, a US statement said
Ali, a US Army translator, is accused of stabbing another contractor during a fight on Feb. 23 at a base near Hit, a town 85 miles west of Baghdad in Anbar Province. A hearing has been set for Thursday.
Notice how the contractors who blow away innocent civilians get nothing?
By the way, WHAT ARE THOSE CONTRACTORS UP TO in Iraq?
We NEVER HEAR ABOUT THEM ANYMORE!!!!!
Case closed, readers!
In Karradah yesterday, neighbors and members of Adel's congregation wept as they flocked to his house to pay their condolences to his wife. The funeral was scheduled for today.
"Everybody is shocked," said Matti Zaki, a fellow priest who was among the mourners. "The sadness is everywhere in the house. I cannot find the suitable words to express the ordeal the family is going through."
Christians have frequently been caught up in the violence or been targeted in this predominantly Muslim country.
And CUI BONO on that one, 'eh?
The body of Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, one of Iraq's most senior Chaldean Catholic clerics, was found on March 13, about two weeks after he was seized by gunmen in the volatile northwestern city of Mosul.
Why is it when I see "gunmen," the first thing into my mind is BLACKWATER!!!
Whadda ya' mean WHO, readers?!!!!
:-)
Adel's assistant said the priest, who was married but had no children, directed a religiously mixed school for Muslims and Christians at the church.
Again, CUI BONO?
Adel, an engineer who became a priest about six years ago, was described as a compassionate man who preached about love and peace, and was heavily involved in helping orphans and widows and other charities.
"We never expected today's ugly killing because the assassinated priest has no enemies at all," Archbishop Severius Hawa said.
Save ONE, 'eh, readers?
El-STINKO!!!!!!!!!
Elsewhere in Baghdad, a bomb exploded on a minibus carrying morning commuters on the busy Palestine Street, killing at least four passengers, police said.
The Iraqi government, meanwhile, eased security measures in two Baghdad neighborhoods that are strongholds of Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia - Sadr City and Shula - amid complaints of food shortages nearly a week after the Shi'ite cleric ordered a cease-fire.
Oh, FOOD SHORTAGES in those areas the U.S. BOMBED, huh?
I'm really sick of the MSM distortions, omissions, obfuscations and OUTRIGHT LIES, readers, I really am.
Aren't you?
While Sadr's order put an end to large-scale fighting that broke out over a government crackdown in the southern city of Basra, clashes have continued.
Sporadic gun battles erupted between militia fighters and Iraqi soldiers backed by US helicopters in Sadr City yesterday evening, and one of the gunmen was killed, according to local police.
The US military, meanwhile, said a helicopter had launched a precision air strike on Friday, killing a gunman, in support of Iraqi ground forces under fire in the militia stronghold of Hayaniyah.
Oh, U.S. HELICOPTER ATTACKS!!!!! "Precision" ones, too!!!!
Yup, BURIED in the BACK of the article!! Killed "gunmen (Blackwater?)."
I guess I should be grateful they reported it at all, right?
Pffffffftttt!
And this is as the shit MSM is telling us the situation has calmed down because of the truce -- as the U.S. and its Iraqi stooges CONTINUES to ATTACK -- DESPITE what Maliki and the lying shit press said!!!!!
Siiiiiiiiiighhhhhh!!!!!
Police said five people were killed in the strike, including civilians and an unspecified number of militants who had fired a mortar at Iraqi security forces.
In all, at least 28 people were killed or found dead across Iraq yesterday, including a senior police officer who was gunned down in eastern Baghdad and seven bodies with bullet wounds were found on the streets of the capital."Yeah, Iraq is just grand now.
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