Iraqi National Guard Leader Demoted and Court Martialed

[erpowers]

I just heard on Air America News that the leader of the Iraqi National Guard was demoted and I think court martialed for associating with know insurgents. The leader was a Lt. Colonel. He was detained Thursday and as a result of the arrest he was demoted to the rank of private and kicked out of the Iraqi National Guard.

[cal04]

1. US troops arrest Iraqi commander

INSURGENTS exploded two car bombs outside an Iraqi National Guard compound west of the capital today, wounding American and Iraqi forces, and the US military announced the arrest of a senior Iraqi commander for alleged ties to the insurgency.


Brigadier-General Talib al-Lahibi, who previously served as an infantry officer in Saddam Hussein's army, was detained on Thursday in the province of Diyala, north-east of Baghdad, the US military said.

Al-Lahibi was the acting head of the national guard for the province, said Major Neal O'Brien, spokesman for the Army's 1st Infantry Division.

The military declined to provide details on the general's suspected ties to militants waging a 17-month campaign to topple the interim Iraqi authorities and oust coalition forces from the country.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,10892481%255E1702,00.html

[bvar22]

These assholes learned nothing...NOTHING...

...from our catastrophe in Viet-Nam.
Deju Vu ARVN

[AlCzervik]

2. Was this the same guy that the US put in charge

of Fallujah a few months ago after the pullout?

[sattahipdeep]

3. Allawi shot inmates in cold blood

I Iyad Allawi, the new Prime Minister of Iraq, pulled a
pistol and executed as many as six suspected insurgents
at a Baghdad police station, just days before Washington
handed control of the country to his interim government,
according to two people who allege they witnessed the killings.

They say the prisoners - handcuffed and blindfolded - were
lined up against a wall in a courtyard adjacent to the
maximum-security cell block in which they were held at
the Al-Amariyah security centre, in the city's south-western suburbs.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/16/1089694568757.html?oneclick=true