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Wednesday 8 November 2006

Sheep coup

This from a local newspaper a few days ago:

Details Of US Coup Attempt Against Al Maliki’s Government [¨Nabaa Newspaper] (3 NOV)

Summary: Secret reports confirmed that the US is preparing for a military coup to frustrate Al Maliki’s government. The plan is that a group of Palestinian women will dress like beggars and go to Shiite areas, such as Buratha, to give information. At the same time, Sunnis will move from Sunni areas toward Shiite areas such as Shula and Kadhmiya. The Sunnis will dress like cleaning, electricity, and water workers. The plan also includes placing bombs in at least 100 sheep and spreading them in local Shiite markets. They will then detonate them to create chaos in these areas. The coup plan focuses on Baghdad but there will be other attempts in Najaf. The plan in Najaf will be to take fake coffins which will contain bombs. There will be 100 funerals heading to Najaf during one week and there will four people escorting each funeral. These people will stay in the city and they will make contact with other people on the out side in order to prepare for their missions. Iraqi authorities found out on OCT 26th that Najaf was closed by someone for hours. Many holy shrines were closed such as Kufa, Imam Muslim Bin Aqil, Imam Mukhtar Al Thaqafi, Imam Ali’s House, and Sahala Mosque. All these shrines were closed because there were attempts to blow them up and push Iraq into sectarian war. Because of these explosions, people will lose trust in Al Maliki’s government and demand to replace it. Then Iraq will ask for the US help to form a salvation government. US forces will bring the former army and use it again. Parliament will be dissolved and its members will be arrested. The new constitution, political parties, and militias will be canceled. There is information saying that there are officers already prepared in one of the neighboring countries in order to receive the leadership of Iraq. The new government will include a small number of ministries led by military officers. An election will be held after one year. The US plan ensures that the new government will be able to break the Shiite plans in their areas. It will also clean Iraq’s hot areas of gunmen. Alliance members are worried about a change of power in Iraq. US forces are trying to reoccupy Baghdad. These US forces will withdraw after the coup and the Iraqi Army will receive the security missions.

Erm, "The plan also includes placing bombs in at least 100 sheep and spreading them in local Shiite markets."??? Dolly the insurgent?

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