Friday, July 16, 2004

The People We've Left "In Charge"

So this is funny that the Moon driven Washington Times is one of the first in the US to pick up on this.
 
The Sydney Morning Herald was the first paper I know of to pick it up.
 
"Iyad Allawi, the new Prime Minister of Iraq, pulled a pistol and executed as many as six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station, just days before Washington handed control of the country to his interim government, according to two people who allege they witnessed the killings.
They say the prisoners - handcuffed and blindfolded - were lined up against a wall in a courtyard adjacent to the maximum-security cell block in which they were held at the Al-Amariyah security centre, in the city's south-western suburbs. " 
 
A few other international papers, including ABC(Australia), but this is bad bad stuff.  Execution without trial is certainly not within the scope of democracy.  Had these men not already been captured and imprisoned, you could say it was an act of war thing, but come on. 

And the bigger news in my opinion is why the Washington Times and some bumfuck station, WPMI-TV in Alabama are the only news organizations in the US that are reporting it. 

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