US official confirms Allawi shot six dead

[whosinpower]

http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/smh41.html

snip - Writing about his research in Jordan in December, Anderson says: "A well-known former government minister told me that an American official had confirmed that the killings took place, saying to him, 'What a mess we're in - we got rid of one son of a bitch only to get another one'."

The New Yorker also revealed that Anderson was present during an interview conducted by the Herald's chief correspondent, Paul McGeough, in late June, with a man who said he witnessed the executions by Dr Allawi.

Dr Allawi denied the allegations when they were published in the Herald last July.



And THIS is the guy Bush is backing.....appears to be a Saddam wannabee to me......lord it just goes from bad to worse.....I was wondering when we would finally get to the bottom of this allegation.

[DrWeird]

1. It was the US that put Saddam in power.

There's no reason to suspect the next guy the US put in power would be any better.

[SodoffBush]

2. "Dr. Allawi" has the same ring to it as "Dr. Mengele"

~

[leftchick]

3. Iraq NEEDS a thug like saddam...

or else they will have a Shiia Theocracy. Heaven forbid Iraqis get what they want... :eyes:

[Supersedeas]

12. a more obedient thug than what Sadaam became

[Just Me]

34. You mean,...the greedy neoCONimperialists NEED another thug.

Your post (before reading content) stunned me.

WHEW,...moving from literal to fantastic to bullshit to real to sarcasm to passion,....and everything in between,...can be,...challenging.

[leftchick]

42. well yeah....

bushco* needs Allawi the thug. I didn't mean to be obtuse.

[Carni]

4. I think THIS is what's going to bite bush in the ass

Dare I hope?

[mulethree]

23. Bush killed a lot more and it hasn't bitten him

re: the Texas death sentence executions and Gonzales memos.

[girl gone mad]

33. Only when we all stop saying "this will be the thing that brings him down"

will it finally happen.

sigh.

;)

[Carni]

40. At some point it's GOT to happen!

At least that is what I keep telling myself!

[keopeli]

5. Don't act surprised. These are "I told you so" moments, and there will be

many many more. It's important NOT to act surprised when everything falls apart. Otherwise, we'll get the "noone could have possibly anticipated that" comments.

We did nothing to help Iraq, and now it looks like we will abandon them under a new dictator that we appoint (though we'll be able to blame it on THEM through this pseudo election).

[NashVegas]

6. Original Story Link

http://smh.com.au/articles/2005/01/18/1105810916006.html?oneclick=true

from Sydney Morning Herald.

[sniffa]

14. i was gonna say

this is oLd news.

[geek tragedy]

7. I believe these guys are honest, but that they don't represent Iraqi

opinion. Probably just naive.

On the other hand, I don't think much of American liberals who accuse them of being agents of evil.

[DrWeird]

11. executing six men without trials...

isn't evil?

[geek tragedy]

30. I thought this was the Iraqi blogger thread. This post was a mistake.

Allawi is an evil sack of shit.

[Dhalgren]

15. Who are you talking about?

Who is who in your statement? And by the way, if "Six-gun" Allawi committed the murders as eye-witnesses have testified, he belongs in jail, not government - unless he works for the BEFEE, in which case he should be receiving his "Freedom Medal" any day now!

[geek tragedy]

29. Wrong thread. I don't know what happened. OOPS!

Allawi is an evil sack of shit.

I thought this was the Iraqi blogger thread.

[Just Me]

37. What do you mean by, "I thought this was the Iraqi blogger thread."

What do you mean by that expression?

[geek tragedy]

44. I thought I was responding to another thread. Complete brain fart.

I'm an idiot. Disregard. Thank you and drive through. Have a nice day!

[Just Me]

36. Slow down and, please,...back off.

The poster is confused (and so am I *LOL*).

[Dhalgren]

45. Who are you? (LOL!)

And what do you mean? This could get fun, but we aren't in the Lounge...

[Monkie]

18. most of the rest of the world believes hes a cia asset

articles on the net going back to 98 writing of his connections and scheming
i know its normal in the usa for actors,cia directors and their sons to lead the country but in democracies we tend to frown upon that and distrust these agencies and their assets :D

[geek tragedy]

31. See my other responses--I posted this in the wrong thread. My bad. eom

[Gold Metal Flake]

8. Frame: Six-gun Allawi

Six, for six dead.

"Why do you call him Six-gun?" "Cuz he murdered six guys."

Six-gun Allawi. Damn, that one rolls nicely off the tongue.

[SOS]

35. Six Gun and Two Bigs Bombs

When Allawi and his Iraqi National Accord were being financed by the CIA in the 1990s, the INA bombed a crowded movie theater and a school bus filled with children.
When asked why the INA would slaughter a bus full of children, they said it was done to "demonstrate our capability".

[Roland99]

9. Allawi and Negroponte...sittin' in a tree...

K-I-L-L-I-N-G

[bahrbearian]

28. LOL n/t

[David__77]

10. This will earn him nothing but contempt from the Iraqi people.

His murderous intentions are clear. He wants to slaughter every Iraqi patriot who will not defer to his nation-selling treason.

[NNN0LHI]

13. Is it against DU rules to pass out sweets the day this thug gets aired out?

I sure hope not.

Don

[Dhalgren]

16. Are we allowed to start a pool for when his ventilation occurs?

[ngant17]

17. Allawi is an Iraqi-puppet version of Brig. Gen. Loan of S. Vietnam

Text story about Allawi's extra-judicial punishment for the Iraqi POWs (they were POWs, no matter what Bush and Co. might want everyone else to believe). Coincidentally now we're almost on the anniversary of that infamous incident in Vietname, with the photo shot by Eddie Adams in Vietnam back in '68, of a Viet Cong POW being blasted in head by a Viet puppet general of the US occupational army. Read the old article below.

We don't know the names of these executed Iraqi prisoners, perhaps the resistance knows, they likely had family, too. But in the long run, it won't make Allawi any more respectable.
-----------------------------------------------------------
February 1 1968
During police actions following the first day of the Tet offensive Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, a south Vietnamese security official who at the time was head of South Vietnam's national police, is captured on film shooting point-blank in the head with a snubnose .38 pistol a Viet Cong prisoner by American photographer Eddie Adams.

The victim’s name was Nguyen Van Lem (Bay Lop) who was 36 at the time of his death. Nguyen Van Lem was born in 1933, he fought the French with Ho Chi Minh as a teen-ager. When captured in Saigon during the Tet Offensive, he was a Viet Cong captain with a nomde guerre.

He was married to Nguyen Thi Lop.

"That photograph did much to turn Americans against the war", Ms. Thi Lop said in an interview on May 1, 2000. "He would have been happy to see his goal achieved, a socialist state free of foreign occupation."

A story in Time Magazine in 1993 (Time Magazine, February 15 1993, p.42) recalls the incident: "A quarter-century later, the victim’s widow, Nguyen Than Lop, 60, lives in a decrepit house on the outskirts of what is now called Ho Chi Minh City. For a decade after the war, she and her three children were homeless. The Vietnamese provided shelter only after a Japanese TV crew found her living in a field."

Loan died 7-14-1998 in Burke, Virginia at age 67. He lost a leg during the Tet offensive.
---------------------------------------------------------
Makes me wonder, maybe Mr. Allawi will soon lose a head...

[Az_lefty]

21. This Gen. Loan?

[Babel_17]

32. Horrific but

wasn't that general's family butchered by the Viet Cong immediately prior to that photo?

wasn't the guy executed/mudered part of such operations?

Not excusing anything, just truly desirous of an accurate perspective.

[jasop]

19. Will this be all over the major media outlets for the next

couple of months like John Kerry bashing, Howard Dean screaming, or Michael Moore condemnations?

[SoCalDem]

20. It's just what we DO.. We replace THEIR thug with OUR thug

We have done it for decades, and there's no stopping anytime soon.

The problem with "rent-a-thugs"...they always turn on their masters once they get their own powerbase in order.

Every continent (except for Australia & Antarctica) have been "graced" by our thugs at one time or another..

[MADem]

27. Remember IRAN??? Exact same thing...

...when Mossadeq got the 'treatment,' and the Shah was installed by "popular acclaim?" The people at those rally-riots were ferried to them in orange cabs paid for by a three letter agency, and waved their dollar bills (they didn't even bother to use rials) in enthusiastic support of the 'popular' fearless leader.

That one worked out well, for awhile. Of course, when it went all wobbly, it went TOTALLY wobbly. So much for the Three Pillars theory!

[BadGimp]

22. "..the terrorists were better off dead,."

"..the terrorists were better off dead, for they had been tortured for days."

But of course.

[rodeodance]

24. this memo was posted some time ago on DU also

[MisterP]

25. "Yew can't critisahz 'Llawee" whined the Ape-King as he pounded the podium

[Straight Shooter]

26. bush may back him, but bush cannot be held accountable for the aftermath

Remember, it's after the election, and all the sewage is oozing out from the bursting seams of the bush fabrication for war.

Even The Economist noted months ago that Allawi was a CIA operative, for crying out loud. When will the bushies wake the f*ck up and realize how stupid this administration is? I mean stupid, stupid, stupid, et cetera, et cetera, ad nauseam. Gawd, it makes you want to jump off a cliff or something, bang your head against the wall, having to deal with a nation of purposefully ignorant, smug, self-satisfied bush supporters as they tie themselves to our ankles and wade off into the deep waters.

[Massachusetts]

38. Allawi "The Terminator"

"I'll be back"

[mountebank]

39. How will the MSM account for black-balling this story? Bets....

They will play-up the "unverifiable" nature of the original reports (ignoring that it was independently corroborated by two sources, published by a reputable reporter in a reputable newspaper).

-OR-

Will they just continue to ignore it? Probably easier, or in the parlance of our times, more cost-effective.

[agincourt]

41. If he is ruthless enought to kill,

with his own pistol, he will also be ruthless enough to try to avenge the bombing and sanctions of his country. He may try to get us into a war with their neighbors which will benefit Iraq financially and leave the US and their neighbors weakened. I've always felt a little uneasy about him.

[RUMPLEMINTZ]

43. Of course

the GOP, corporate driven media will supress this story! They want this damn war just as much as BU$H!

[theresistance]

46. Congratulations to Paul McGeough

of the Sydney Morning Herald for breaking this story. Too bad every MSM outlet ignored it. See: http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/opinion/2004/August/opinion_August7.xml§ion=opinion&col=

[theresistance]

47. P.S. Allawi is a terrorist...

He conducted terrorism against Iraq in the 1990's with CIa's help. See: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0609-02.htm