# Iraqi PM doing the job!

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**Created:** [July 20, 2004, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/iraqi-pm-doing-the-job/58222 "2004-07-20T20:01:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/iraqi-pm-doing-the-job/58222/1 "2004-07-20T20:01:50Z")

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> Iraq’s Human Rights Minister, Bakhtiar Amin, said yesterday that he would investigate claims that the Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, shot six handcuffed insurgents at point-blank range just before he assumed office three weeks ago  
> [http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/19/1090089101841.html?oneclick=true](http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/19/1090089101841.html?oneclick=true)

If this is true, wohoo, Vietnam, here we come! (hey it rhymes)

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**Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/iraqi-pm-doing-the-job/58222/2 "2004-07-20T20:13:19Z")

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Newsweek wrote an article a week ago in their magazine that said that Iraqis wanted a leader who would take a strong stand against terrorists. While I doubt that the PM would have personally shot the six insurgents, it’s probably part of a media war to make the normal Iraqis feel that the new interim PM (who looks very friendly and grandfatherly) also has what it takes to fight back.

It’s about giving the Iraqi people some sense of security, and if he manages to scare a few terrorists, more power to him.

(EDIT: an abridged version of the larger article: [**[color=blue]http://www.newsletters.newsweek.msnbc.com/id/5457368/site/newsweek/[/color]**](http://www.newsletters.newsweek.msnbc.com/id/5457368/site/newsweek/))

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**Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/iraqi-pm-doing-the-job/58222/3 "2004-07-20T20:39:32Z")

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> it’s probably part of a media war to make the normal Iraqis feel that the new interim PM (who looks very friendly and grandfatherly) also has what it takes to fight back.

hmm… I doubt that, while I do agree that I can’t picture him doing that, executing in a one man judge-jury fashion, six \*\*handcuffed and helpless \*\* insurgents is far from making him look like a tiger. Esspecialy when they are trying to make the insurgents to regoin mainstream Iraq and give them pardons.