Power Transfer to Stay on Track Despite Killing, U.S. Says

[Emboldened Chimp]

I didn't see this posted yet...lots going on today...

By IAN FISHER

Published: May 17, 2004


BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 17 — A suicide car bombing near an entrance to the coalition headquarters here killed the head of the Iraqi Governing Council and six other civilians today, dealing a further setback to the American effort to stabilize Iraq in advance of a June 30 handover of sovereignty.

Ezzidin Salim was the second member of the American-appointed council to be assassinated. He was killed while waiting in a Governing Council convoy at a checkpoint leading to the Green Zone, the coalition headquarters in central Baghdad.

L. Paul Bremer III, the top American administrator in Iraq, condemned the bombing as a "shocking and tragic loss."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/17/international/17CND_IRAQ.html?hp

[WLKjr]

1. that just knocked off the Sarin story

it just goes to show that every day we stay, more and more sh*t hits the fan.

[Emboldened Chimp]

2. kick--big news here, folks...

[dbt]

3. Raaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwk! Stay the course! Raaaaaaaaawk!

Pretty bird! Stay the course! Raaaaaaaaawwwwwwk!

It was midnight on the sea
The band was playing 'Nearer My God To Thee'
Fare thee well, Titanic
Fare thee well.

:freak:
dbt

[struggle4progress]

5. Shit baby I ain't gonna make rope no more!

[boobooday]

4. This is huge

This man was a leading writer and thinker -- who knows what his motives were, but the fact is that it is more devastating evidence of Bush's Operation Iraqi Chaos.



http://www.wgoeshome.com

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. I wouldn't want to attend any of their post June 30 council or

whatever they are going to call them meetings. What is the life expectancy of a member of that board?