Just One More Thing...Seriously This Time
Okay, I thought I was done with the political rants for the day, but I ran into this story (this was the original story from last July) which makes it seem a lot less surprising that Prime Minister Allawi would be involved in torturing prisoners. Last July he allegedly executed six insurgents inside a Bagdhad police station. Holy crap. The story barely got reported when it was first mentioned last year, but a Jordanian government official claimed last week that the story was confirmed to him by an American official.I don't know much about Allawi, except what I've read, and I can't claim to understand what life is like in a warzone, so I'm not going to offer any comment on it. Maybe he's exactly the kind of leader Iraq needs (if in fact they need a gangster for a leader). Who am I to say?
posted by Skrambled Egghead Reborn @ 9:21 PM
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