Iraq's Nouri al-Maliki 'copies Saddam Hussein'

[kirovman]

Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, is orchestrating a campaign of persecution against political rivals "even worse" than Saddam Hussein's reign of terror, his predecessor has claimed.

Ayad Allawi claimed agents of Mr Maliki's Dawa Party were tightening their control of Iraq to emulate the creeping coup tactics used by the deposed Ba'ath Party to take over in the 1960s.

He claimed that Mr Maliki commands his own intelligence and security agencies.

"This is what we call a system of intimidation as it used to happen in Saddam's times," said Mr Allawi, who was interim prime minister between 2004 and 2005. "It is the same system, even worse.



A report on Iraq's security services for the US Congress published this month apparently corroborated Mr Allawi's claims.

It said: "Parallel lines of direct communications with military units have been established under the control of the prime minister.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/28/wiraq128.xml

 

[CptStern]

not that I fully trust past CIA stooge, murderer and terrorist Allawi but this does ring true however it's no surprise as the US would have supported anyone so long as they were against saddam so putting in a hardliner/extremist isnt out of the norm

 

[No Limit]

not that I fully trust past CIA stooge, murderer and terrorist Allawi but this does ring true however it's no surprise as the US would have supported anyone so long as they were against saddam so putting in a hardliner/extremist isnt out of the norm

Puting in an extremist is probably going to be the only way to bring any kind of stability to that country. So after years of war, over a million dead, we will go back to the same shit as before.

America the world police...bring chaos and destruction to the world since 1947.

 

[CptStern]

Puting in an extremist is probably going to be the only way to bring any kind of stability to that country. So after years of war, over a million dead, we will go back to the same shit as before.

worse, at least saddam was secular

 

[jverne]

worse, at least saddam was secular

good point

 

[Gunner]

Puting in an extremist is probably going to be the only way to bring any kind of stability to that country. So after years of war, over a million dead, we will go back to the same shit as before.

America the world police...bring chaos and destruction to the world since 1947.

Not exactly the same shit mind you, this time it's a Shi'ite.

 

[kirovman]

worse, at least saddam was secular

Yeah, the only references he made to religion were in his later years, when he tried to curry favour with neighbouring countries. He was more of an Arab nationalist, like Eygpt's Nasser.

At least with Saddam the trains ran on time.

 

[The Monkey]

Not exactly the same shit mind you, this time it's a Shi'ite.

Yes, majority oppression instead of minority oppression.

 

[CptStern]

At least with Saddam the trains ran on time.

classic

 

[Mr-Fusion]

The CIA said that....BAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHA

Fiction.

 

[CptStern]

**** the cia