Senior Iraqi policeman assassinated in Mosul (not by US)

[leftchick]

like the last time... :eyes:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10116380

MOSUL, Iraq - A suicide bomber killed the head of the Iraqi police anti-corruption department in the northern city of Mosul yesterday.

A United States lieutenant-colonel said the bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body in the building where Brigadier Walid Kashmoula worked. Earlier officials said it was a bomb attack.

Al Qaeda’s wing in Iraq, led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said it had assassinated "the apostate Walid Kashmoula, who is the top American agent" in the area.

"This will be the fate of those who stand by the polytheists," al Qaeda Organisation for Holy War in Iraq said in a statement posted on an Islamist website.

[Cocoa]

1. it might have been done by the U.S.

or condoned, or aided.

Who knows? Maybe we'll find out years from now who was behind all these assassinations.

One obvious question would be, who would want to kill the head of the anti-corruption unit?

[leftchick]

2. ahhh that cynicism that runs rampant here...

I have it as well.