CBS News Translator Slain By Insurgents

Anwar Abbas Lafta Becomes The Third CBS News Employee Killed In Iraq War

(CBS)  Editor's Note: Anwar Abbas Lafta, an Iraqi who worked as a translator for CBS News in Baghdad, has been abducted and slain by insurgents. He became the third CBS News employee to be killed in the war.

Cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan were killed by a car bomb in Baghdad on May 29, 2006. Corrrespondent Kimberly Dozier was seriously injured in the same blast. She recovered and has returned to work.

In this reporter's notebook, CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan remembers her slain colleague and recounts the terrible events that led to his death.

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Some time ago, we hired a new Iraqi translator to work in our office in Baghdad. He was an older man, well-respected and well-known in his community.

His name was Anwar Abbas Lafta.

Anwar spoke fast, loved to talk, and often tortured me with bizarre requests for old French movies that he loved and I had never heard of, but would dutifully search for and try to bring for him when I came back to the country after short visits away.

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Statement From CBS News

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I started to dread the sight of that little piece of white paper in his hands as he approached me because I knew it was going to take hours of my life to find what he wanted, but I just couldn’t say no to this distinguished man, deprived of the artistic culture he loved so much.

With his unique way and wily mind filled with knowledge of Iraq’s history and its people, Anwar eagerly shared the ways of a world he knew to be hard and unforgiving.

And it didn’t take long for him to create the “Anwar" moment that would become legend at CBS…

New and enthusiastic, he came rushing up to the newsroom and stood in the doorway, bursting with expectation. When our bureau chief - the "legendary Larry Doyle" as he is known at CBS - raised his head and looked at Anwar, it was all he needed.

Anwar burst into the room, raised both hands together above his head and with a wide sweep of his arms making an arc around his body, he announced:

“Breaking news!!”

First stunned into silence and anticipation, the office watched transfixed. But on the second take we erupted in laughter - a truly wonderful shared moment that relieves the soul, a spark of light in the relentless darkness that surrounds us here.

It always made us chuckle to recall Anwar’s spectacular theatrical flourish. No one even remembers what the news actually was - except that it wasn’t really breaking news. But after that we rarely lost an opportunity to make our own announcements with the same dramatic flair, preceding things like, “I’m going to bed” or “We’re out of Red Bull again."

Now whenever we do this, if we ever do this again, it will mean something else entirely. It will be a memory not of laughter, but of pain. Pain at knowing that Anwar Lafta Abbas is dead.

He was taken from his home around 8:30 in the evening local time in Baghdad earlier this week. After leaving work at 5 p.m., Anwar stopped in to see an ailing relative at a nearby hospital. His brother and sister were waiting for him at home.

They say it wasn’t long after he arrived that a knock came at the door.

Anwar’s brother went to answer, and the answer he got when he opened it was a rifle butt smashed in his face. The group of about eight armed men wore body armor and went straight for Anwar. There was no doubt, his relatives have said, that he was the reason they came to that door, of that house, on that night.

But Anwar was not a man to go quietly. And like every Iraqi, he knows what it means when a death squad comes for you.

So he reached for his weapon and tried to put up a fight, but in the delicate words used to mask a more brutal truth, “They overwhelmed him."

Anwar always told me he was not afraid. He always spoke his mind. He did not run from confrontation. And he had no illusions about the state of his country. He had worked previously for the U.S. military and had a great respect and affection for many of the soldiers he knew, while still being highly critical of what he saw as America’s mistakes, and its failure to truly understand Iraqi culture.

So when I heard that Anwar resisted his kidnappers, and was still fighting as they forced him into one of their unmarked white land cruiser vehicles waiting outside, it did not surprise me.

In fact, I played that over and over in my mind all that night. And when I awoke in the morning with that terrible, sick feeling that something is wrong before you’ve had a chance to bring your brain into focus, it was the first image that popped back into my head. As I came slowly to consciousness after just two or three hours of sleep, the full weight of it all hit me and propelled me from bed, rushing into the office for news.

Over the next few days we did everything we could to try find him - which is almost nothing in country where militias and death squads and government forces appear to be free to do anything they want without fear of recourse. That’s not always true, of course, but it happens so often it seems that way to the people living though it every day.

Thoughts of Anwar’s family and what they were going through - the worry, the pain, the terrible, wrenching fear that he might be undergoing torture - all that plagued my conscious and unconscious moments, shadowed every minute of my days and nights.

Like Anwar, his brother is also a fighter and he had picked up a weapon and chased after the kidnappers, shooting at them. They returned fire, and sadly, terribly, shot Anwar’s sister in the arm.

She survived, but with medical care in Baghdad in tatters, who knows what the long-term impact of her injuries will be?

And now, along with her wounded arm, she has a shattered heart.

Her brother’s body has been found.

It’s over.

The wait. The fake ransom demands. The uncertainty. And worst of all - the hope. It’s over.

Anwar is one of thousands of Iraqis, maybe even tens of thousands, who have died this way.

But he was ours.

And it hurts.

A searing sadness, a pain that hits you in the belly and knocks you to the floor and you’re not sure if you got back up or you’re still down there but no matter whether you stand up or stay down, there’s no escape from this new reality.

“Breaking news” in the Baghdad bureau has gone back to being a scrawl along the bottom of the TV screen for now. Life, we all know, will go on, in one form or another.

But maybe in a while, when we can bear it, someone will come into the newsroom when the toilet paper runs out, raise their arms together over their head, and announce with vigor,"breaking news. "

And somewhere Anwar will smile. And know he is not forgotten.

[stevenga777]

Too bad they don''t take Bush and Cheney the next time they are in Bahgdad. They would be doing the US a favor.

BTW...Why aren''t the Bush twins visiting VA hospitals to boost moral among the troops? I think it is because they are too good to associate with oyr combat troops.

[chicagopoet]

This is very sad; but why say he was slain by insurgents? Insurgents to what? Iraq is in the middle of a civil war. Everyone is killing everyone. CBS should stop putting people in danger by continuing the fallacy that American troops belong there. If CBS wants to keep something like this from happening again, it should speak out against the illegal occupation of a sovereign nation instead of repeating the tired old propaganda fed to us by the liars in the Bush administration. I do not mean any disrespect, but this is the truth.

[one_american]

"...the worry, the pain, the terrible, wrenching fear that he might be undergoing torture..."

Yes. Real torture. Unlike the fake torture stories made up in the press about our military.

Terrorists and insurgents know that they are being rapidly squeezed into tiny little corners, and are constantly on the run to avoid our military surge and the increasing presence of the Iraqi Army and Police Force.

The only way they can have an effect on the political discourse in this country now - is to go directly after the American news media itself to try to break Americas will to fight.

Be careful, CBS - you are now prime targets.

[grazinggoat]

Everyone is killing everyone. CBS should stop putting people in danger by continuing the fallacy that American troops belong there. If CBS wants to keep something like this from happening again, it should speak out against the illegal occupation of a sovereign nation instead of repeating the tired old propaganda fed to us by the liars in the Bush administration. I do not mean any disrespect, but this is the truth.
Posted by chicagopoet at 03:18 PM : Aug 27, 2007

-Poet, please go re-write something more decent. What do you do with the neutrality of journalists and news agencies. You cannot commit news men and women to take position into a conflict. The just report what facts are, the most accurate hopefully... Up to us readers to be critical of a news that is reported to the public. So please, with all respect...

[fascistusa]

Cool.

Our Corporate "News" employees deserve to DIE.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[xzavierbrown]

was he killed by christians??
was there any outcry against ''freedom of press''?

its one of many ways the ''liberal backed'' insurgents are showing thier gratitude..

dont worry folks..the liberal media and the liberal masses ARE WORKING hard and diligently to make sure that we cannot spy on them..we cannot violate thier rights and rest assured that one day one really radical left winged liberal celebrity would say we cant kill them.

Honestly, i wish they would hurry up..these liberals needs to really understand what it means to FIGHT for thier freedom. I am sure these low level insurgents run on the true belief that they are doing Allah''s bidding and will not tolerate a liberal lifestyle..hell..Im getting another proxy to do my bidding..OH WELL.

[chicagopoet]

When journalists are doing nothing but repeating the propaganda that is fed to them by a corrupt government, then they are no longer neutral. The Iraqis know that journalists are being used as tools to justify an illegal occupation and that is why journalists are being targeted. So, pleaaase, save your bull for someone who is dumb enough to fall for it.

[xzavierbrown]

Posted by chicagopoet at 03:45 PM : Aug 27, 2007
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I like that..CBS a neoconservative source of news..MAN! THAT IS NEW and all that time I thought CBS is a haven for Biased liberal media.

[xzavierbrown]

Posted by chicagopoet at 03:45 PM : Aug 27, 2007
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what do you suggest??? a hugo chavez style of press??
I heard this from a liberal friend of mine..he told me of you dont like it..''DONT READ IT''..

[bareemperor]

Sad.
It''s still not a ''war'', CBS.
Our troops are the aggressors, in an oil grab.
Our fascist president is furthering the hatred of the USA.
The majority of US citizens are powerless due the well-planned RepubliCon coup.
CBS is furthering the lies, in what passes as ''news''.
We ''libs'' will end this atrocity, and bring everyone home. Like we did in VietNam.
Sad.

[feelfree1]

It is not surprising that the people of Iraq would defend themselves against the illegal invaders of their country, from collaborators, and from deadly pro-war propagandists and apologists like Kimberly Dozier, and Lara Logan.

Obviously, the people of Iraq have every right to defend themselves, by whatever means they may deem necessary.

[feelfree1]

CBS News is at least partially responsible for the death of this man.

They most likely conned/bribed him into becomming a collaborator, and collaborators are clearly in a lot of danger from those who are not happy with them betraying their fellow countrymen and women in exchange for a few trinkets.

[stevster33]

You guys are out of control.

You''ve taken a wonderfully written piece by Lara Logan and turned it into something to defend/attack your own personal beliefs. Pathetic.

[feelfree1]

chicagopoet,

Re: "When journalists are doing nothing but repeating the propaganda that is fed to them by a corrupt government, then they are no longer neutral. The Iraqis know that journalists are being used as tools to justify an illegal occupation and that is why journalists are being targeted."

Very good points.

[xzavierbrown]

We ''''libs'''' will end this atrocity, and bring everyone home. Like we did in VietNam.
Sad.
Posted by BareEmperor at 03:59 PM : Aug 27, 2007
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Oh man!! another one of those "jesus syndrome"..yes what the vietnam hippies did not bring home were those communist VC..WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO BRING BACK HOME IS THAT INTOLERANT VIOLENCE in this side of the border. It is obvious enough, that if left unhindered they will...hell even EU is paying the price for sharing your ideology

[seven-pesos]

just wait for the blood bath of all iraqis that conspired with the americans...

bush is in iraq illegally.

iraqi traitors that conspired with the u.s. will all be murdered.

those iraqis in question better get the hell out of iraq before bush gets impeached.

ha,ha,ha.

whenever you get a southerner in the whitehouse

america ends up losing.

war, hate, christian creeps, republican snakes...

nothing good comes out of the south.

[rudy654-2009]

I don''t care what side people are on in this matter, I feel completely sympathetic to the loss of this man''s life, and the lives of all other innocents. Furthermore, if it weren''t for translators/interpreters working for news organizations we would have very little knowledge of anything going on over there. People who only know murder as a way to solve problems, will reap the results in due time.

[bbailey642]

We need all the help we can get in Iraq to assist our troops in returning to the U.S., so all of you Bush bashers, liberals, Dems., etc. pick up your rifles and join up. That way you can support the troops'' withdrawl AND complain about Bush at the same time. With your help it will take no time at all and once the troops are all home, then it will be your turn. Hurry! The Army is even offering bonuses to leave for boot camp right away!

[xzavierbrown]

Posted by FeelFree1 at 04:17 PM : Aug 27, 2007
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the price of having the freedom of the press is HIGH..is it not??This story is a clear evidence that your poor insurgents DOES NOT TOLERATE they freedom you are supposedly protecting.
of course you would not understand..the most you would pay for any freedom is a few taps on a keyboard

[xzavierbrown]

Posted by bbailey642 at 04:19 PM : Aug 27, 2007
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the way we can properly support our troops is TO STOP HINDERING every effort to make thier jobs better..SO WE CAN FINALLY FINISH THE JOB AND GO HOME. Most do not support this war because of allegations and conspiracy. Hiding thier true agendas against Bush by using the war on terror as a forefront.
NY Times and other liberal medias are fighting our govt for tactical secrets so they can plaster it on the next monday''s frontpage..
The DNC is asking for rights to bestowed to foreign combatants BUT I CAN BET A MILLION DOLLARS that when a democrat gets in the white house..THEY WOULD DO THE SAME THING.
The Liberal Hollywood industry..making millions on telling people how to think. DO YOU THINK GEORGE CLOONEY is a good guy or a person who knows how to deal with true warfare just because he played a role once in a movie???
LETS FINISH THE JOB WITHOUT ANY OPPOSITION WHO ARE FREAKING OVER SOME CONSPIRACY SOLD TO THEM BY HOLLYWOOD..AND THEN LETS ALL GO HOME.

[seven-pesos]

i wish bush would be tortured like this poor iraqi man was tortured.

i''d throw garbage at bush as he begged on his knees for his miserable life.

think of the 100''s of 1000''s that have died in iraq because of bush.

and they still love bush in the south.

republican snakes, christian creeps, ignorant white trash bush loving southern freaks...

bush''s kind of people.

nothing good comes out of the south.

[nolalou]

fascistusa ,

You are a cruel and heartless JERK! Nobody deserves to die like that, especially not someone working as a translator for a news network! I''m sick of idiots like you and xzavierbrown, just to mention one, using stories like this to bash the media, liberals, or anyone who does not believe in your agenda!

Lara Logan is one of the best journalists covering the war, and in this article shows the pain of loosing a co-worker and friend. I just hope she doesn''t read these comments, by you IDIOTS!

[feelfree1]

xzavierbrown,

Re: "the price of having the freedom of the press is HIGH..is it not??"

Very high indeed. If Western Corporate media sources like CBS would have done their jobs, and reported the well-known lies that stampeded us into this illegal misadventure, instead of marginalizing and villainizing the massive opposition to it, this whole thing could have been prevented.

If Western Corporate media would have provided better coverage of the intentional bombing of the al-Jazeera journalists at the Palestine Hotel, and the myriad of war crimes being committed within this illegal war of aggression, instead of cheerleading the illegal and disgraceful misadventure, we could have gotten out of there a long time ago, brought the Bush regime and its collaborators before a war crimes tribunal, and regained some control over our government.

But this has not happened. CBS and other Corporate outlets have sold their integrity and shirked their responsibility to the public, so it is hard to feel sorry for any losses that they might experience as a result.

While the price of a free press is indeed high, our Corporate media outlets have clearly surrendered this right in exchange for short-term gain. They have betrayed the public trust, and should have their Charters revoked as a consequence.

[chicagopoet]

The word "insurgent" means "Rising in revolt against established authority, especially a government." The United States is NOT an established authority in Iraq. We illegially invaded the country based on fabricated evidence. Blaming the murder of this translator on "insurgents" is giving the false impression that there is a clear "us and them" in Iraq, when there isn''t. Everyone is killing everyone in Iraq and who knows why this particular person got killed. There is no established government or authority in Iraq and that is the problem. Several times I have asked exactly what has to happen in Iraq for America to feel that the "job is done" or that "we have won" and nobody seems to be able to answer that question. People who say we should stay until the job is done don''t even know what that means. Who exactly do we have to commit genocide on before the "job is done" in Iraq?

[feelfree1]

xzavierbrown,

Re: "SO WE CAN FINALLY FINISH THE JOB AND GO HOME"

Mass murder, torture, and illegal wars of aggression are not "jobs"- they are heinous crimes, and should not be supported by anyone with any dignity or self-respect.

[secundus2]

The great thing about FeelFree1 is how little he values the freedom of others. The free press, especially when women such as Logan, Dozier or Falk practice the profession, sends him into a twit. The freedom of "Anwar" to work as a translator is something he wants to denounce to secret organizations that work outside the freely elected Iraqi government (it''s an ineffective government but millions of Iraqis ignored threats and voted for it). And he himself is never free of obsessive paranoia. The only Iraqis for whom feels any empathy are not like Anwar who lived in an open profession openly, but rather, criminals who make attacks on civilians from concealment and whose tactical adoption of war crimes is their principal boast. He would perhaps like to "feel free," but he is a poor creature of the shadows, who has to attack a simple obituary tribute like a sniveling jackal hungry for dead human flesh.

[seven-pesos]

the whole world is laughing at america...

little does the world know that america has a dark side...

it''s known as the republican, christian south...

formerly known as confederate rebel south.

the south never changed...

they just became reborns and republicans.

ha,ha,ha.

war, hate, rednecks, reborns...

nothing good comes out of the south.

[xzavierbrown]

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so everytime you pump gasoline, everytime you buy products that were made in factories that used oil and gas. YOU ARE GUILTY!!!!

what you are forgetting or just refusing the understand is that YOU..ME...HIM..HER..and everybody''s feindish need for thier resoruces IS CASUING THIS..we dont need it..THE MARKET WOULD REACT and we will not be there..DO YOU EFFING UDNERSTAND THAT?????????? so before you blind us with your benevolent yapping..you should understand your part in that equation of death..

REALLY FEEL BAD?? RIDE A BIKE..WALK..CONSERVE..when you are no longer eagerly and wittingly use the resources we ''steal'' from middle east...then you come back you tell me that this country is a war monegering entity.

[xzavierbrown]

dignity or self-respect.

Posted by FeelFree1 at 04:37 PM : Aug 27, 2007
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let those words echo in that hollow cranium of yours the next time you pump gasoline.

or you get yours via denial??

you feel ''saddened'' by all these murders and torture..THEN STOP USING STOLEN GASOLINE..FU CKING MORON..i dont want to hurt your feelings..I meant Mr. fu cking moron sir.

[feelfree1]

xzavierbrown,

RE: "RIDE A BIKE..WALK..CONSERVE.."

These are excellent suggestions, and very refreshing ones coming from an apparently dedicated neo-con apologist/dead-ender.

These are among my favorite tactics for charting a survivable and honorable course for our furture. If everyone in our country would do just a little more of these activities, we would be well on our way to moving in a new direction, and one that we could all be proud of.

[chicagopoet]

We need to simply get out of Iraq. Edwards / Richardson 2008.

[clestes-2009]

Another victim of Bush''s march towards democracy. How many more lives are going to be lost in this lost cause??

[oakishpines]

there''s those parts what are feed the world and those what are tax the world

let''s put trillions in taxing it

and be satisfied

[ubrew12]

CBS: please keep in mind that this is why these news people are targetted and killed. At some point, you must accept some complicity in their deaths. I know you want to commemorate your collegues, but too much can lead to more deaths.

[xzavierbrown]

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well do you?? Hey I hate this war and I hate Bush..and do you know how I show my contempt??I RIDE THE BIKE..I walk..I recycle..when we are independent from thier resources, we will be out of there so fast..I just refuse to give the oil company ANYMORE than I have to.

[feelfree1]

secundus2,

Re: "The great thing about FeelFree1 is how little he values the freedom of others."

This does not describe my vlues in any way, but it is quite telling that you would consider this position to be a "great thing".

The people of Iraq have every right to defend themselves against illegal invaders of their country and from collaborators and puppet officials.

This is self evident.

[feelfree1]

xzavierbrown,

Re: "I RIDE THE BIKE..I walk..I recycle..when we are independent from thier resources, we will be out of there so fast..I just refuse to give the oil company ANYMORE than I have to."

This is great news. I am glad to see that we can agree on something, and are both taking proactive steps to change our situation. It all adds up.

[tnt1954]

the satanic saracen swine will pay in a colourful
way for this translators death. we could
all speak the same language. death and taxes.
corporations are nations unto themselves
within other taxing entities. anwar sadat
was murdered also, by satanic saracen swine.
the satanic saracen swine have not paid fully
for his death. they shall pay until not only
the cows come home, but for ever moor.
moor and mountain, following yonder star.
50 thousand years pro bono work is recommended
by the Almighty in this case. i shall watch
them, from my post, beyond the end of forever,
and make sure verk is done perfectly or it
will be done over. Mother Hen. feel hen-pecked?

[cbs_oliver]

It is a sad story. I feel badly for his family and for the CBS reporters and American military who have worked with Anwar Abbas Lafta over the last four years or so.

This war has seen great attrocities against journalists.

Some cases still remain unresolved.

Al Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Haj has been jailed without charge at Guantanamo for the past five-and-a-half years.

Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein has spent more than a year in a U.S. military prison in Iraq, also without charge.

U.S. officials haven''t made public any evidence of wrongdoing in these cases.

[seven-pesos]

read the c.b.s. article on fattest people in america!

oink, oink, oink...

ha,ha,ha.

that''''s the south for you, folks!

bush country...christian country...republican country.

nothing good comes out of the south.

[sharncedar]

Even in Iraq, where total chaos reigns, they kill traitors who work for foreign interests. We reward them with big fat Wall Street bonuses.

The USA is the only country on earth where a traitor is rewarded with a bonus. Our secretary of the treasury virtually works for the Chinese government due to his huge investments there. Whne told the US was having economic problems, his quote was, "the global economy is strong". So I guess that means he and his traitor friends are fine, scr*ew the US. A direct, admitted, open traitor to the USA working within our government.

We don''t even have the courage the Iraqis do. Even after all the bombings, the division, the propaganda, the destruction of their homes, hope, and infrastructure they still defend their country better than we defend ours.

Makes me sick.

Traitors in Iraq get what they deserve, when are the filth in our country going to get what they deserve far more.

[lars008-2009]

it is fascist nazi terrorislam stupid%u2026.

non muslims of the world unite... fight against the tyranny of the fascist nazi terrorslam imperialist empire of the darkside...

I was a fanatic...I know their thinking, says former radical Islamist
By blaming the Government for our actions, those who pushed this "Blair''s bombs" line did our propaganda work for us.
More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=465570&in_page_id=1770
Bless the Beasts and Children
Fascist nazi terrorslam kills every man woman and child in the village again%u2026 typical mo for terrorslam%u2026
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/bless-the-beasts-and-children.htm

Our Prophet commanded us to fight the kaafirs when we are able and to attack them in their homelands and to give them three choices before we enter their lands: either they become Muslim and be like us, sharing our rights and duties; or they pay the jizyah (poll tax) and feel themselves subdued; or they fight, in which case their wealth, women, children and homes become permissible as booty for the Muslims.
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=13759&ln=eng&txt=before%20islam%20arabia%20pagan

the truth about fascist nazi terrorislam...
http://www.terrorismawareness.org/what-really-happened/

[swwils]

Eye for an eye,and tooth for a tooth kill ten insurgents!

[feelfree1]

swwils,

Re: "Eye for an eye,and tooth for a tooth kill ten insurgents!"

First, you must not be a Christian, as your comment matches more closely with the beliefs of Satanists, and/or dullards lacking any common sense.

Second, since there is no legitimate government in Iraq, there are no "insurgents"- only legitimate resistance groups opposing an illegal invasion of their land, and the oppression of their friends and family.

[tnt1954]

satanic saracen swine will now receive the
curse of the release of the spanish flies upon
them. the release of the fairy frogs upon
them. the release of the titillating toads
upon them. their firstborn shall die in the womb
which will really only be a tomb. the Lord
God has spoken through His Right Hand.
they shall beg for mercy, and it shall not
be received. the living in the land of
the saracens, will envy the dead. quoth the
ravens, poor moor. tuff love.

[oscarez]

"Another victim of Bush''''s march towards democracy. How many more lives are going to be lost in this lost cause??"

This is about Oil not democracy. Remember the Cheney energy task force meetings in 2000, well this was their long term plan. World oil production will peak in 2010 and U.S. companies are looking for long term oil supplies to keep operating. Anwar Abbas Lafta and all the other deaths in Iraq are just Collateral Damage of the Bush administration. The oil producing nations know if push comes to shove the U.S. will invade to keep oil flowing to the U.S.

[toolmangler-2009]

I won''t name names but to the people that posted how glad they are that this Iraqi man was murdered "You have hit the bottom. I use to think Bushy_baby was the worst now I see that you people have sunk lower tham him!!!!! Bushit has a reason for what he is doing, it is a wrong reason but it ''is'' a reason. You have no reason for your hatred of a man that was simply trying the best way ''he'' knew how to get the truth out for people to see. You never met this man or talked to him so you never knew whether he deserved to be murdered or not. I tell you now, that if Allah were real, this man would be a martyr and very worthy of his virgins (or whatever). Right now, I am more ashamed of those posts of yours than I am of Bushit. If you want to run me off here for saying the truth, so be it!!!

[tnt1954]

osama was kidnapped by the mossad on about
september 13th, 2001 and has been working
for free, pro bono, in a jewish deli in
brooklyn since then. he is most dissatisfied
with his job. he is messed with daily
by his hebrew ''brethren'' at the deli.
he looks so different. the mossad did such
a nice job of keeping him alive to suffer
so much moor. isn''t that tooo baad.

[seven-pesos]

oink, oink, oink...

ha,ha,ha.

that''''s the south for you, folks!

fattest in the country!

bush country, christian country, republican country.

fat, happy, southern, ignorant, republican and christian...

that''s the south for you, folks!

[gwagener]

Re: "Eye for an eye,and tooth for a tooth kill ten insurgents!"

First, you must not be a Christian...

"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"
This is often misquoted. From Exodus 21:23, Hebrew law calls for someone who comits a crime that caused loss of an eye or a tooth, etc. to be punished by the same loss.
Jesus, who was just a carpenter and not very well educated, did not understand this and took it to mean one is to personally seek retribution for a loss. He advised turning the other cheek.