U.S. military: Iraqi lawmaker is U.S. Embassy bomber

[babylonsister]

Who the hell is running this show? He uses the same name now as he did as a terrorist, and no one caught that?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/05/iraq.lawmaker/

U.S. military: Iraqi lawmaker is U.S. Embassy bomber
POSTED: 5:31 a.m. EST, February 6, 2007

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A man sentenced to death in Kuwait for the 1983 bombings of the U.S. and French embassies now sits in Iraq's parliament as a member of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's ruling coalition, according to U.S. military intelligence.

Jamal Jafaar Mohammed's seat in parliament gives him immunity from prosecution. Washington says he supports Shiite insurgents and acts as an Iranian agent in Iraq.

U.S. military intelligence in Iraq has approached al-Maliki's government with the allegations against Jamal Jafaar Mohammed, whom it says assists Iranian special forces in Iraq as "a conduit for weapons and political influence."

Repeated efforts by CNN to reach Jamal Jafaar Mohammed for comment through the parliament, through the ruling Shiite Muslim coalition and the Badr Organization -- the Iranian-backed paramilitary organization he once led -- have been unsuccessful. (Watch how a convicted terrorist became an Iraqi lawmaker Video)

A Kuwaiti court sentenced Jamal Jafaar Mohammed to death in 1984 in the car bombings of the U.S. and French embassies the previous December. Five people died in the attacks and 86 were wounded.

He had fled the country before the trial.

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[magellan]

1. And they think he's in Iran now

Way to go, BushCo. You'd think they'd do a little intelligence background on the people standing for the new government....

[youngdem]

2. What the hell are we doing over there again?

So terrorists don't end up running the country and becoming a haven for terrorists?

Unfucking real that background checks on terrorists are run on my 9 year old nephew to fly to Disneyworld but NOT for the (s)elected members of the Iraqi parliament.

I now teeter between believing this is the most incompetent administration in the history of bureaucracy to believing more each day that they are intentionally sabotaging the world to bring about Armageddon.

This gang of thieves running both sides of this debacle make Saddam look like Mother Theresa. And it becomes clearer each day why Saddam was a ruthless leader - it was simply (and sadly) necessary to keep Iraq from its current state.

[EST]

3. Welcome to my (cynical) world.

We don't hear much anymore about the mafia - other than some local, one city gangs - we hear about gangs, individual mobsters, and the like.

The chief reason is that ALL governments are now organized crime. They operate all sides against the middle and there is a concerted effort to conceal this fact from the public, albeit not a very spirited or convincing one.

Once you glom up on the notion that every single government is it's own private mafia and all the wars, economic battles, "accidents" massacres, etc are, almost without exception, one form or other of criminal organizations battling it out with each other, IE, turf wars.

We, the people, are the prize, along with accumulated wealth and resources, and we are also the means, the weapons and the victims.

It should come as no surprise that each gang, or mega gang, is sometimes willing to gamble every single asset they control, along with every living soul under their control, in order to "win."

[EFerrari]

5. My mom has called them "the legal mafia" for years. n/t

[Ganja Ninja]

4. So how many billion are we spending to support this government

and how much are we paying this guy a year?

Thank you President Bush and the GOP for sending my money over there to support terrorists. How much disgrace is it going to take before you resign? Will a massacre of American troops be enough or does our whole country need to be a smoldering pile of rubble before you decide to quit?

[KharmaTrain]

6. The Friend Of My Enemy...

Now isn't that something...supposedly one reason for invading was that Hussein was harboring all sorts of terrorists affiliated with Palestinian groups and now this? Gotta give Malaki a pair of brass ones...but then I'm starting to see him as part of a larger picture and not a pretty one for the booosh regime.

He's been able to hoodwink boooshie and his cabal while serving as an agent for both Al Sadr and Iran...using the U.S. military as his private militia against the Sunnis and soon the Kurds. Using our military, Malaki's further divided the country and put our military in the crosshairs of many different sides. As long as our troops remain there, it puts a buffer between him and those who really want to get at him. Thus when we hear the crap about the "Iraqis taking control of their situation" it flies in the face of what's in Malaki's best interest.

The power vacuum that is Iraq continues to get wider and with it, it makes our military's job harder and harder. Watch this regime ignore or downplay this story like it's some type of "old news" or use it as a plant to ratchet up their war with Iran as "justification" that the whack-a-mole "terrerists" are now all hiding in Iran and Syria.