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U.S. forces raided a house in Karbala province and clapped some dude. The trouble? Well, the real trouble is that U.S. forces are in motherfucking Karbala province instead of like, home, or on the Afgh-Pak border. But the other bit of trouble was that the guy they shot appears to be Prime Minister Maliki’s first cousin.
"The prime minister was very angry," Ebaidi said in a phone interview Saturday night. "The Americans are saying that they informed the Iraqis beforehand, but that is not true."
Maliki’s dudes are showing Iraqi reporters around the guy’s house. Apparently U.S. troops knew they were searching for someone with the last name "al-Maliki" who, according to the dead man’s brother, they accused of being "a leader of a ’special group,’ a term the U.S. military uses to describe Iranian-backed Shiite militias." Now that’s either one awkward-ass family barbecue or it’s not true or Maliki doesn’t really mind who gives him his money and power.
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I assume “clapped” should be “capped”?
Because until I got to the hyperlinked text I thought it was supposed to be some hip shorthand for “clapped in irons”, like on the old sailing ships.
No, I mean clapped. But capped works too.
Hm. The Urban Dictionary agrees with you, while The American Heritage Dictionary doesn’t know what you’re talking about, among its five transitive verb meanings for ‘clapped’.
And, of course, I never claimed to have encountered that meaning of ‘clapped’ before.
Thanks Spencer.
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The Barnacle Branch’s just laying the groundwork for its preemptive attack on Iran.
I keep trying to make the point that Maliki is not the puppet he’s often painted as being. Sistani and al-Sadr had more to do with putting him in office than Bush/Cheney.
If one assumes that the job of Iraqi prime minister requires a certain amount of public shit-eating and making nice with the occupation, but privately he (like the rest of the Shiite governing coalition) looks forward to the day they can kick the U.S. out, why shouldn’t his family members be involved with illicit militias?
Doesn’t that explain why the Iraqi government seems pissed off not because a Maliki family member might have been tied to such militias, but because the guy wasn’t as untouchable as his family name should have made him?