Foreign Minister Says Security Forces May Have Been Involved in Bombing

BAGHDAD, Aug. 22 -- Iraq's foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, said Saturday that the coordinated attack that killed more than 100 people, including dozens of his employees, in Baghdad on Wednesday may have been carried out with the complicity of Iraqi security forces. Full Story »

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by Samuel W. Velsor IV - Aug. 22, 2009

Very poor when you make a statement or treason and you use only one quoted source.

No surprise whatsoever that their own security was involved in the bombings. How stupid at this point to allow safety measures to be removed from vital government buildings, there for sure are not the proper checks and balances in place to have allowed this in the first place.

“Regrettably, we accepted the orders to remove these walls,” he said, citing a “false general sense of the security situation.” Hefty concrete blocks were reinstalled Saturday.

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