israelmatzav.blogspot.com - 9/23/2008
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Iraqi MP Mithal al-Alusi (pictured) may be facing a death sentence for having visited Israel. Fellow MP's voted on Monday to strip him of his parliamentary immunity so that he may be tried for treason under a law that dates to the 1950's. Al-Alusi's two sons have already been murdered due to his ...
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What kind of Iraq?
Yourish.com —
... by death under a 1950s-era law. Such a fate is unlikely for al-Alusi, though he may lose his party’s sole seat in parliament.
Because he had visited Israel, many Iraqis assume the maverick legislator was the real target of the assassins who killed his sons in 2005 while he escaped unharmed.
The State Department in its infinite fecklessness refuses to get involved, claiming that this is an internal Iraq matter.
Israel Matzav covered this first, so let’s quote him:
Is this what hundreds of American troops died for ...
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