Friday, April 13, 2007

Iraqi Lawmakers Meet in Extraordinary Session of Defiance against Terrorism

MercuryNews.com has this story today that starts off like this... Iraq's Parliament met in an extraordinary session of defiance on Friday, the Muslim day of prayer, and declared it would not bow to terrorism. A bouquet of red roses and a white lily sat in the place of Mohammed Awad, the lawmaker killed a day earlier in the dining hall suicide bombing claimed by al-Qaida... Parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani opened the session and asked lawmakers to recite verses from the Quran in honor of Awad, who he called a hero...
Read the rest of the story at link below...

Iraqi lawmakers meet to defy terrorism

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