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10/29/2003 Archived Entry: "Not good. Very not good."
Not good. Very not good.
How long before Iraqis completely give up on working with us? A few more like this, and it could happen.
The warnings came from his mother, sister, four brothers, and friends -- and from people who called late at night and threatened harm.
Stop working with the Americans.Faris Abdul Razzaq Assam, one of Baghdad's three deputy mayors, heard the messages but listened to his heart, family members said. He continued to work on water projects and set up neighborhood councils. He supervised thousands of employees as the head of city technical services.
When Assam returned Sunday from an international donors' conference in Madrid, he excitedly told his family that he had secured billions of dollars in pledges. "I'm going to turn Baghdad into heaven," he said.
Hours later, witnesses said, two gunmen walked into an outdoor cafe where Assam was playing dominoes and shot him in the head at point-blank range. The assailants slipped into the night and remain at large.
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ouch
Posted by lorelei @ 10/29/2003 09:15 AM NY
It would appear that Saddam is alive and well and a hell of a lot smarter than we gave him credit for.
Can anyone say "yellow cake walk"?
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 10/29/2003 10:48 AM NY
Maybe he meant to say "I will soon be living in heaven". Not funny.
I am sure someone recalls the story about the 'redcoats'.
Our best advantage for morphing this region into a socially working mechcanism, began to rapidly erode with the first dumb ass general with his itching finger on the smart bomb trigger.
My condolences to Faris Abdul Razzaq Assam's family. He was trying to do the right thing.
And this takes guts in any culture.
A king to all who knew and loved him, I am sure. In the eyes of his allies, a disposable pawn in a redcoat.
Posted by Aristophanes @ 10/29/2003 01:13 PM NY
