Basra arrest bolsters revenge theory ...... (not al-Qaida)

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4908199-103550,00.html

Basra arrest bolsters revenge theory
Evidence suggests homegrown terrorists - not al-Qai - carried out bombings in response to attack on Falluja

Luke Harding in Baghdad and Mohammad Haider in Basra

Friday April 23, 2004
The Guardian

An Iraqi suspected of involvement in Wednesday's devastating bomb attacks in Basra came from the Sunni city of Falluja, Iraqi officials said yesterday, suggesting that the blasts may not have been the work of al-Qaida but an act of revenge for the US's brutal offensive in the city.

According to British officials, Basra's governor, Wael Abdullatif, told colleagues on Wednesday night that an Iraqi caught running away from the scene of one of the explosions had travelled to southern Iraq from Falluja.

He was detained outside the police academy in Zubayr, 15 miles south of Basra, which was the scene of two of Wednesday's car bomb attacks.

As the death toll from the explosions rose to 74 yesterday, with 160 injured, Mr Abdullatif said the Iraqi authorities were pursuing several leads and expected to make more arrests shortly.

He gave no further details of the man in custody, but Iraqi officials said "seven or eight" Iraqis from the mainly Sunni town of Zubayr had been killed in the US military's offensive against Falluja.
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1. kick

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2. Those wacky Brits!

Notice how their newspapers insist on bringing us items that run counter to the Official Bullshit so widely disseminated by the Amerikan Corporate Media?

It may well be that al-Qaeda doesn't have to lift a finger in Iraq and that the locals are very willing to take us into their own hands.

Are there any more reasons not to invade a country under false pretenses?

:freak:
dbt

[G_j]

3. but but..

The "news" said its all al-Qaeda...........