Senor Double Agent? Making end runs around Bremer?

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Senor Double Agent?

I have it from a source I consider reliable that the order for the arrest of Muqtada al-Sadr in early April, 2004, which came as such a surprise and threw the country into chaos for two months, came from Dan Senor. Senor is said to have acted on instructions from Neoconservatives in the Pentagon, and to have kept Paul Bremer, his putative boss, out of the loop. Bremer was presented with a fait accompli.

I speculated at the time that the Neocons came after Muqtada because he had objected so loudly to Sharon's murder of Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, the clerical leader of the Hamas Party (the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood). Muqtada had highlighted the assassination in his newspaper, al-Hawzah al-Natiqah, which the Coalition Provisional Authority ordered closed. And then Muqtada had promised to be the right hand of Hamas in Iraq, and to open Hamas offices all around the country.

In other words, his position was completely intolerable to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Likud Party, and their American fellow-travelers among the Neocons.

The CPA had been tempted to go after Muqtada on more than one previous occasion, but it appears that cooler heads, like Gen. John Abizaid, had prevailed.

http://www.juancole.com/

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Senor is a needle-nosed little weasel...

Shakespeare said (describing Cassius in Julius Caesar): "A lean and hungry look."

That's Danny...:eyes:

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2. And who was going to follow

the orders of "press secretary?"

Exactly; no one. Senor was in no position to give orders to anyone, especially the military.

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3. Bremer has always struck me as Man Without Clue.

One wonders just how many loops he's been kept out of!

:evilgrin:
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