.IRAQ: For a change, a happy ending
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In a phone interview the night of the abduction, Sheikhly's brother, Ziad, said Sheikhly and his guards had fought until they ran out of ammunition to try to fend off the abductors. When their bullets were gone, Sheikhly went with the men, but he was allowed to phone his mother later to say he was alright.
On Monday, after a truce of sorts ended the fighting and Baghdad's curfew was lifted, Sheikhly was freed. Attempts to reach him by phone Tuesday were futile -- nobody answered. But in an interview aired by Arabiya TV, an Arab satellite channel, he said he was not harmed and that the abduction was a warning to Iraq's government not to push Shiite militias too hard.
"These simple people used to eat with me sometimes and they did not lay a hand on me," he was quoted as saying. "However, it was a message to the Iraqi government, and God willing, law will be implemented.""
Babylon & Beyond
You know another more insidious theory might be that Maliki launched this operation to get any "council" that might have popped in along the shi'a lines.. Maybe they moved to squash the movement before it can take hold, Basra was just the decoy so JAM could clean up "councils" all along Baghdad and beyond!!
In a phone interview the night of the abduction, Sheikhly's brother, Ziad, said Sheikhly and his guards had fought until they ran out of ammunition to try to fend off the abductors. When their bullets were gone, Sheikhly went with the men, but he was allowed to phone his mother later to say he was alright.
On Monday, after a truce of sorts ended the fighting and Baghdad's curfew was lifted, Sheikhly was freed. Attempts to reach him by phone Tuesday were futile -- nobody answered. But in an interview aired by Arabiya TV, an Arab satellite channel, he said he was not harmed and that the abduction was a warning to Iraq's government not to push Shiite militias too hard.
"These simple people used to eat with me sometimes and they did not lay a hand on me," he was quoted as saying. "However, it was a message to the Iraqi government, and God willing, law will be implemented.""
Babylon & Beyond
You know another more insidious theory might be that Maliki launched this operation to get any "council" that might have popped in along the shi'a lines.. Maybe they moved to squash the movement before it can take hold, Basra was just the decoy so JAM could clean up "councils" all along Baghdad and beyond!!
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