JMNYC
12-20-2003, 08:41 PM
taken from reuters (http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=423620§ion=news) regarding tanks rolling out on pro-Saddam demonstrations in Tikrit, his home town.
Bet Bush would have liked to do the same to Gore supporters 3 years ago.
... An hour later, a handful of military vehicles returned, one carrying the U.S.-backed regional governor Hussein al-Jaburi, while a recording of his voice boomed a warning to would-be Saddam loyalists.
"Any demonstration against the government or coalition forces will be fired upon," Jaburi's voice said, according to an army interpreter. "This is a fair warning."
Demonstrators risk a year in jail and, if they work for the state as civil servants or teachers, they will loose their jobs, the message said. All demonstrations are illegal in the U.S.-occupied province.
"They are not allowed to go around kissing pictures of Saddam in this city," Russell said. "It will not happen."
Afterwards, Jaburi and Russell interviewed a middle-aged man in traditional Arab clothing who they suspect of inciting demonstrations.
"Look me in the eye. Let me make something very clear," the American officer told the man over tea at the governor's office.
"If our ears and eyes see and hear you are connected with demonstrations, and anti-coalition activities you will be going to jail for a very long time."
Bet Bush would have liked to do the same to Gore supporters 3 years ago.
... An hour later, a handful of military vehicles returned, one carrying the U.S.-backed regional governor Hussein al-Jaburi, while a recording of his voice boomed a warning to would-be Saddam loyalists.
"Any demonstration against the government or coalition forces will be fired upon," Jaburi's voice said, according to an army interpreter. "This is a fair warning."
Demonstrators risk a year in jail and, if they work for the state as civil servants or teachers, they will loose their jobs, the message said. All demonstrations are illegal in the U.S.-occupied province.
"They are not allowed to go around kissing pictures of Saddam in this city," Russell said. "It will not happen."
Afterwards, Jaburi and Russell interviewed a middle-aged man in traditional Arab clothing who they suspect of inciting demonstrations.
"Look me in the eye. Let me make something very clear," the American officer told the man over tea at the governor's office.
"If our ears and eyes see and hear you are connected with demonstrations, and anti-coalition activities you will be going to jail for a very long time."