Friday, December 16, 2011

'No, no, no and .... no!'

"On Friday, U.S forces transferred the last prisoner they had been holding in Iraq over to Iraqi officials, CNN reports.
Ali Mussa Daqduq, a senior Lebanese militant suspected of helping plot a 2007 ambush in Karbala that killed five U.S troops, was transferred into Iraqi custody ... "We did so because we felt that was the fastest possible way to bring him to justice," Vietor told CNN's Adam Levine...The United States has previously sought Daqduq's extradition in order to try him before a military commission...But ultimately, American military authorities gave up and handed him over to the Iraqis after "it became clear the Iraqis would not be able to" extradite him, Levine wrote.
President Obama met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki at the White House this week to discuss the future of American-Iraqi relations after the withdrawal of the last U.S. forces from Iraq. Both leaders emphasized Iraq's independence from Iran--but Iraq's Shiite-dominated government has rejected several recent American requests that also drew opposition from Iran as politically untenable. Among the American proposals Iran has rejected were the plan to preserve a small follow-on force in Iraq in the wake of this month's withdrawal plan and the maintenance of a small U.S. training mission in Iraq...
Iraqi authorities in 2009 released two militant Iraqi Shiite brothers, Laith and Qais al-Khazali, who also allegedly took part in the highly sophisticated Karbala attack. During that action,  gunmen "wearing 'American-looking uniforms' and carrying 'U.S.-type weapons,' drove through checkpoints before opening fire on U.S. soldiers..."

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