Iraqi Mayor's Killing Reinforces Fear

[Judi Lynn]

Iraqi Mayor's Killing Reinforces Fear
Many Say Working With U.S. Will Lead to Retribution from Resistance Groups
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, July 18, 2003; Page A08


HADITHA, Iraq, July 17 -- In this hilly town along the Euphrates River, people recall how Mohammed Nayil Jurayfi used to boast that his black Toyota Avalon had belonged to a senior Baath Party official -- until Jurayfi confiscated it on orders from U.S. Army officers.

His seizure of the Toyota and five other cars had been controversial, leading one local man to call him "an American collaborator" and another "a partner with the enemy."

But Jurayfi, an influential tribal leader who proclaimed himself mayor of Haditha after Saddam Hussein's government dissolved, was unruffled, according to relatives and colleagues. He was so proud of his relationship with the U.S. military that he kept a framed citation of thanks from an American officer on his mantel.

On Wednesday afternoon, as he was returning home from his office with his youngest son, Ahmed, at least two gunmen sprayed his Toyota with dozens of bullets as it rounded a corner, police officials said. Jurayfi and Ahmed were killed instantly, the officials said.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8262-2003Jul17.html?nav=hptop_ts&nav=hptop_ts

[bobthedrummer]

1. Fear again gets reinforced

but not our troops? Why fear?

Always a good motivator in a headline?

Fear no evil.