Allawi Claims Assassination Attempt

[rsmith6621]

AP - 48 minutes ago

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An angry crowd confronted Iraq's former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi at a Shiite shrine south of Baghdad on Sunday, forcing him to flee in a hail of stones and shoes. Allawi called the attack an assassination

http://news.yahoo.com/fc/world/iraq

The Iraqys are really happy about the government we installed for them.

[xultar]

1. So happy they are throwing shoes and bullets at them.

[merwin]

2. Showering chocolate and candy.... showering stones and shoes...

same thing!

[tanyev]

3. Scared of a few shoes? What a wimp!

Steel-toed boots, maybe, but I don't think many Iraqis wear them.

[wellst0nev0ter]

10. Actually, Throwing Shoes In Arab Society Is Akin To Throwing Human Feces

Since shoes and anything dealing with feet are considered unclean, they are basically telling him he wasn't even worth assassinating.

[shaniqua6392]

4. Awww! That poor thing.

Yeah right. Like we care.

[Fridays Child]

5. Didn't Allawi just speak out against the U.S.? I wonder if something...

...coming out of the Iraqi media Pentagon precipitated the attack on him.

[ECH1969]

7. This has nothing to do with the US

This is Iraqi politics.

Sadr wanted to humiliate Allawi by forcing him to run out of a holy Shia site.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. Can you vote with your shoes?? Probably more accurate than say

Diebold... hell, Kruschev did it.... Thom McCann would be proud... heh heh heh....

[EFerrari]

8. LOL! What a great idea.

If Bruce McPherson even TRIES to recertify Dievote, my heels are ready.

:)

[dutchdemocrat]

9. Video on CNN

http://dynamic.cnn.com/apps/tp/video/world/2005/12/04/robertson.allawi.stoned.cnn/video.ws.asx

[realFedUp]

11. Allawi paid by CIA

hard to tell who's on the payroll these days...
Saddam used to be.

Who Is Allawi?
By Ghali Hassan
19 June, 2004

http://www.countercurrents.org/iraq-hassan190604.htm

The Iraqi Girl Blog, Baghdad Burning, wrote on 18 June 2002: "Iyad Allawi is completely America and Britain's boy. He has been on the CIA's payroll for quite some time now and I don't think anyone was particularly surprised when he was made Prime Minister. The cabinet of ministers is an interesting concoction of exiled Iraqis, Kurdish Iraqis who were in the northern region and a few Iraqis who were actually living inside of Iraq".

snip

The choice of Iyad Allawi as Iraq's prime minister of the upcoming IIG was "forced by the United States as a fait accompli on the UN and the Iraqi people. He was an American candidate than one of the UN or the Iraqis themselves. "When we first heard the news today, we thought that the had hijacked the process", a senior U.N. official said. Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN special envoy to Iraq resigned as a result of his failure to stand up to the U.S. and show some credibility in Iraq. Once again, the UN failed the
Iraqi people and denied them their legitimate human rights. Allawi's choice and his close ties with the U.S. came in a country where public opinion has grown almost universally hostile to the Americans. Recent polls reveal that Mr. Allawi has almost 5 percent supports, just below the president, with a 7
percent approval rating.

[Javaman]

12. Ahhh, and here I thought it was allawi that failed, being the thug he is.