Baghdad Mayor Killed

[Barrett808]

Baghdad. The mayor of Baghdad Hatem Mirza Hamza and his driver were killed Wednesday in al-Durra neighborhood in the Iraqi capital, Interfax reported citing a statement of the Iraqi Interior Ministry. A group of gunmen opened fire in the car of the mayor and then escaped.

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=138&newsid=746...

[afdip]

1. despite this, things are going quite well . . . .

or, aside from that, mrs lincoln, how was the play???

[saigon68]

8. another quisling bites the dust

MEANWHILE IN DOWN TOWN SAIGON ---etc etc etc

[0007]

37. The Iraqis know who Judas is and where he hangs loose. | n.t|

[MADem]

41. Heh heh heh

Not to laugh at the situation, but that punch line sums it up.

Hey, freedom is on the march, after all!!!!

[joemurphy]

2. Glad to know the insurgency is "in its death throes." n/t

[Tight_rope]

3. Well...Who will take his seat and be next to die....n/t

[smoogatz]

4. But why isn't the press reporting on all the schools, roads and bridges

we were building, back before Halliburton stole all the money we'd allocated to build them? And the close bonds being forged every day between friendly U.S. troops and the Iraqi civilians they're torturing in Abu Ghraib? Freedom's on the march, you know.

[msanthrope]

7. Yes, why does the press hate America? n/t

[Kurovski]

53. Actually, that's a very good question.

Aside from the comedic value of the question, which I enjoyed, that's a very, very good question indeed.

[warrens]

5. I'm sure there is a mistake in this report

They were probably just throwing more of those flowers Cheney and Perle were talking about, and the mayor pricked his finger on a thorn. You know how the liberal press exaggerates everything. Now the good news they NEVER tell you. A 7 year old child made it to school yesterday without being shot dead in the street. Democracy is on the march.

[Career Prole]

6. Sigh...So when is the *next* "milestone towards democracy"?

Maybe when they break ground on the "George W. Shit-fer-brains Preznitential Liberry" in Fallujah?

[saigon68]

9. It will be the Penitential Libary

That's LIBARY ya know

[Kurovski]

54. We're going to have about 50 years of them according to

Dr. Condoomleezza Rice.

[AngryOldDem]

10. Just one of those roadbumps....

...on the way to democracy.

[superconnected]

11. Thank you GW for bringing democracy and stability to Iraq..

You're doing a hell-of-a job.

Just like you've done all of your life.

How's the bones society going at the white house?

[maddezmom]

12. and don't forget women's rights

Condi on CSPAN talking about all the great things going on in Iraq related to US policy.

[saigon68]

21. THEY LOVE BEING TREATED LIKE CATTLE

[daleo]

13. Only the mayor of the Green Zone is safe

Well, for the moment anyway.

[superconnected]

15. Only Bush is safe

the rest of his cabinet is scared for their crimes.

And the rest of the world is like F@#$ he's lose. We gotta get some nukes. They don't mean bin laden.

[Sabriel]

14. Quick, post the opening in the Help Wanted section!

"There's a unique opportunity for a motivated individual to become part of an Occupation team. If you're a self-starter, know how to say Yes! in several languages, and can provide your own personal security contingent, then come join our organization. (Insurgents need not apply.)"

[Tight_rope]

16. LMBAO...Thanks for the morning kick start!

[Sabriel]

18. All facetiousness aside...

Isn't this a disturbing indicator of just how bad things are in Iraq? I mean, if you can't even ensure the safety of the mayor of the largest, most modern city.... Yikes.

Nothing says FUBAR like a high-level, high-profile assassination.

[hang a left]

47. LOL

You are funny.

[louis-t]

17. Any in MSM reporting this? Even in passing?

Just wonderin'.

[soup]

19. hunh? Hatem Mirza Hamza? Who's that?

What happened to the other guy - Hussein al-Tahaan? You know, the Shiite dude that ousted mayor Alaa al-Tamimi in August...

Baghdad's mayor deposed and replaced with a Shiite
By James Glanz The New York Times

THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2005

BAGHDAD Armed men entered Baghdad's municipal building during a blinding dust storm, deposed the city's mayor and installed a member of Iraq's most powerful Shiite militia.

The deposed mayor, Alaa al-Tamimi, who was not in his offices at the time, recounted the events in a telephone conversation Tuesday and called the move a municipal coup d'état. He added that he had gone into hiding for fear of his life.

"This is the new Iraq," said Tamimi, a secular engineer with no party affiliation. "They use force to achieve their goal."

The group that ousted him insisted that it had the authority to assume control of Iraq's capital city and that Tamimi was in no danger. The man the group installed, Hussein al-Tahaan, is a member of the Badr Organization, the armed militia of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/10/news/baghdad.php

I'm so confused.

[muriel_volestrangler]

29. This guy may be the head of municipal works

not 'mayor' - a translation problem when going vis Bulgarian, perhaps? This is the only Google result for him:

Engineer Hatem Mirza Hamza, Baghdad municipalities’ president

[soup]

33. Ah, thank you. I think you're right.

Lost in translation might be what's happened here. 'Baghdad municipalities’ president' could easily be confused with 'mayor'.

and thank you for the link.

While it may not be the Mayor of Baghdad and his driver who were killed, it's still two more deaths in the midst of this madness.

[Barrett808]

48. Good find

I would have edited the title, but I saw this too late.

[asjr]

20. Another one bites the dust. There are some really

pissed Iraqis there.

[Straight Shooter]

22. Send Rove over there to be the new mayor.

Mr. Spin can set things straight again. After all, he's a jeeen-yuss.

[adigal]

23. Absurd! They just voted on the constitution

so the insurgents have been defeated...again.

Impossible!!

[TallahasseeGrannie]

24. How many mayors of Baghdad have died so far?

[deadparrot]

50. How many HAVE there been, anyway?

I KNOW I've seen this headline more than once.

[alcibiades_mystery]

25. No different from what happens in LA or NYC, according to Brit Hume

Y'know, the mayor's driving around with his bodyguard, gets stopped by a bunch of gunmen, runs for his life, and is shot to death. Very common occurrence in all American cities. When will the media stop reporting only the bad news?

[saigon68]

31. Brit Hume is a bush bot apologist

A hemorrhoid waiting to erupt

[jokerman93]

26. dead enders

[ernstbass]

27. remember - freedom isn't free

[The_Casual_Observer]

30. They voted all this terrible stuff away last week.

It's going to be great from now on.

[noonwitch]

28. It's sad, whether it's this guy or our soldiers, dying for stupidity

The Iraq was is such a stupid mistake, made by a stupid leader.

[Kolesar]

35. thank you. that needed to be said.

[Bob3]

32. More Progress - this is going so well.

N/T

[Rex]

34. Look, democracy is messy and sometimes innards get spilled.

Along with brain matter and sometimes bone fragments from a IED. Yup, just ask Rummy the Dummy. Freedom on the march!

[MADem]

42. Well, they just need to find that guy with the vase running out of the

Archeology museum....he can use the vase to scoop that stuff up!

[hiley]

36. democracy is on the march

though...

[saigon68]

40. FREEDOM IS ON THE MARCH

LET FREEDOM REIGN---the CHIMPANZEE

[arwalden]

38. We're Rounding The Corner...

... we're rounding the corner
... we're rounding the corner
... we're rounding the corner
...

[npincus]

39. only 2 of the Iraqi participants in will allow themselves to be filmed

both are judges (re: Sadaam's trial)... none of the court officers or other judges will go on camera.

Doesn't that say it all?

[saigon68]

43. They will BITE THE DUST

Vidkun Quisling (July 18, 1887–October 24, 1945) was a Norwegian fascist politician and officer. He held the office of Minister President of Norway from February 1942 to the end of World War II, while the elected social democratic cabinet of Johan Nygaardsvold was exiled in London. Quisling was tried for high treason and executed by firing squad after the war. His name has become an eponym for traitor


The term "quisling" has become a synonym in some European languages, including English, Norwegian and Serbian, for traitor, particularly one who collaborates with invaders. The term was coined by the British newspaper the Daily Mail.

[kskiska]

44. Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln,

how did you enjoy the play?

[TheFarseer]

45. After WWII

the mayor of Berlin was assassinated 36 times between 1945 and 1949. So we're really doing very well in Iraq. That's a fact. Look it up.













Actually, that's not a fact. I made that up.

[malmapus]

51. No no my heart says it is...books steer you wrong with fact!

Trying to remember how Stephen Colbert put it on his opening night

[Burried News]

46. Last Throes.

[big johnson]

49. If this is revenge for the murder of Margarte Hussan

then I think they got the wrong POTUS.

[Alien8shon]

52. When the Green Zone is already running out of all other volunteers...

They're now going to have to go door-to-door, with rifles, to "recruit" a candidate for Mayor of the CAPITOL?????

Yuh.

Goin' swell...... not.

[madmark]

55. Every f**king cheerleader for this war should be forced to at least

once to take the drive from the Bagdad Airport to the green zone.

[jazzjunkysue]

56. "Freedom is on the (BOOM!!!)

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

57. Is this a credible source? Interfax is netting no search results...

and I find no other references on web...