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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-10-07 01:14 PM
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Who is the Association of Muslim Scholars (in Iraq)?
Some dude on CNN was just talking about them, indicating that they want the U.S. Congress to stop Bush's insane "surge."

Now why would they do that? Why would they run a go-around on the Decider?

Take that, Chimpy!
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GreenZoneLT Donating Member (805 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-10-07 01:20 PM
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1. Sunni group, major propagandists
They've got some affiliation with the Sunni armed groups, although they don't brag about it. According to the Iraqi Shiites I talk to, they're all hardcore Saddamists -- Muslim "Scholars" Association is a better name.

They put out press releases that usually turn out to be total fabrications. You can be cynical about U.S. PR, but this is straight, Goebbels-level BS they put out.
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-10-07 01:28 PM
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3. Oh well... The dude on CNN made it sound important.
Maybe not.

:hi:
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-10-07 01:20 PM
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2. Head of Sunni clerics says Bush plan is a plot against Sunni Muslims
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Sunni leader Harith al-Dhari _ head of the influential Association of Muslims Scholars, a group with ties to some Sunni insurgents _ denounced al-Maliki's offensive in an interview with the Saudi daily Al-Watan, saying the Shiite-led government was not providing balanced security.

"This government has taken as its job to slaughter, arrest, abduct and displace (Sunnis). It is not taking its responsibility for a real security or economy or even providing services for the Iraqi people," al-Dhari was quoted by the newspaper as saying.

"Now they want to implement the new security plan with the collaboration of the American president George Bush," he added.

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http://www.helenair.com/articles/2007/01/10/national/000iraq.txt
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