IRAQ

The Nation: Member of an Islamic Terrorist Group Now Heads 'Liberated' Iraq!

Iraq has its first temporary president....Ibrahim Jafari. (He'll hold
the job for a month: It's a rotating presidency, handed off like a relay
baton between nine 'chairmen'....chosen by a USDA-approved 25-member
Governing Council.) Jafari hails from the Shiite fundamentalist party Al Dawa...
Would that be the same Dawa that carried out a series of Reagan-era
bombings in Kuwait of....the American and French embassies and the
residential housing of American Raytheon employees -- bombings that
killed five people and injured 80? The same Dawa that took inspiration from
the Iranian Islamic Revolution and the Ayatollah Khomenei? The same Dawa
that founded and set up Hezbollah... ? Why yes, it would. Only now, after
three decades of guerrilla and terrorist violence, they've surfaced to demand
a share of ruling post-Saddam Iraq...claiming they now believe in
democracy and rule of law. And we trust them on this because...well...who can
keep track of all these guys anyway?