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The U.S. didn’t inform the Iraqi PM Malaki … because he couldn’t be trusted to keep the operation secret. The democratically installed parliament is furious and demands answers from Iraqi leadership. Perhaps they should just send their questions higher-up to 1000 Pennsylvania Ave or the bunker occupant under the White House.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — U.S. and Iraqi forces arrested the Iraqi deputy health minister Thursday morning in a raid on the Health Ministry complex in Baghdad, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.
Deputy Health Minister Hakem Abbas al-Zamili is a senior member of the political group loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Al-Sadr’s Mehdi Army militia has been blamed for much of the sectarian violence in Iraq.
Boots for knocking ...
Iraqi Health Minister Ali al-Shammari criticized the way forces seized his deputy, calling the raid a humiliating blow to the dignity of the ministry and the official seized.
Al-Shammari said he should have been notified and that he would have cooperated. He asserted that legal channels should have been followed, with the proper papers from justice officials.
“We know that American people and their government respect the law. So they should respect the law here,” al-Shammari said.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."