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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: dutch508 on April 05, 2008, 03:49:48 PM
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Barrett808 (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-05-08 02:48 PM
Original message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3256654
Iraqi priest killed in drive-by shooting in central Baghdad, police say
Advertisements [?]Edited on Sat Apr-05-08 02:50 PM by Barrett808
Source: Associated Press
BAGHDAD: Iraqi officials say a priest has been killed in a drive-by shooting in central Baghdad.
An official with the Interior Ministry and a local police officer have identified the slain priest as Youssef Adel and say he was killed Saturday by gunmen in a speeding car shortly after he left his house.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.
More specifics about the priest's religious affiliation were not immediately available. The predominantly Islamic country has a number of religious minorities, including Catholics and Orthodox Christians, who have faced frequent attacks.
Christian priest gunned down in Baghdad
by Ammar Karim
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Gunmen shot dead an Assyrian Orthodox priest near his house in the centre of the Iraqi capital on Saturday, in an attack condemned by Pope Benedict XVI who expressed his "profound sorrow".
Iraqi security officials said Youssef Adel, a priest with Saint Peter's Church, was gunned down by gunmen travelling in a car around noon (0900 GMT) as he left home.
A medical official said Adel's body had been brought to Ibn Nafis hospital in central Baghdad.
The pope in a telegram to the Orthodox Assyrian archbishop of Baghdad, Saverius Jamil Hawa, said he prayed that "the Iraqi people find a way of peace to build a society that is just and tolerant."
He also expressed his "profound sorrow" at the killing.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080405/wl_afp/iraqunrest
Starts out pretty normal...only one reply so far:
DesertRat (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-05-08 03:10 PM
Response to Original message
1. Another victim of Bush's occupation. Very sad.
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Stoopud boosh
Muslims never hurt xtians until boosh stole the election and faked 9/11 to get us into an illegal war!!!
BTW - how many DUmmies secretly wish they could have been the ones pulling the trigger if not for the fact they have to feign indignation in order to hang another indictment on the president?
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Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Chrisitians have never been persecuted in the Middle East.
Hey DUmmies, this would not have happened without Coalition involvement and the removal of Saddam -
Michael Yon emails: "I photographed men and women, both Christians and Muslims, placing a cross atop the St. John's Church in Baghdad. They had taken the cross from storage and a man washed it before carrying it up to the dome. A Muslim man had invited the American soldiers from 'Chosen' Company 2-12 Cavalry to the church, where I videotaped as Muslims and Christians worked and rejoiced at the reopening of St John's, an occasion all viewed as a sign of hope. The Iraqis asked me to convey a message of thanks to the American people. 'Thank you, thank you,' the people were saying. One man said, 'Thank you for peace.' Another man, a Muslim, said 'All the people, all the people in Iraq, Muslim and Christian, is brother.' The men and women were holding bells, and for the first time in memory freedom rang over the ravaged land between two rivers.
http://instapundit.com/archives2/011413.php
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The DUmmie answer for everything = It's Bush's fault.
I've said this before and I believe it now more than ever...President Bush could find the cure for AIDS's...Cancer and Altzheimers in the next month and the Dummiles would STILL complain about how he didn't do it fast enough.
:whatever: