US official confirms Allawi shot six dead

[JohnyCanuck]

A former Jordanian government minister has told The New Yorker that an American official confirmed to him that the Iraqi interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, executed six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station last year.

The claim is in an extensive profile of Dr Allawi written for this week's issue of the magazine by an American journalist, Jon Lee Anderson, the author of The Fall of Baghdad and a regular Baghdad correspondent for The New Yorker.

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'."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7749.htm

I guess the neo-con way of looking at the situation is, "He might be a mean son of a bitch, but at least he is our son of a bitch."

[codegreen]

1. freedom is on the march!!!

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Praise be!

[HEyHEY]

3. This is such a fucking bad scene

[JohnyCanuck]

4. Allawi was really just showing his humanitarian side

wanting to put the poor chaps out of their misery.

The witness said he approved of Allawi's act, adding that, in any case, the terrorists were better off dead, for they had been tortured for days.

[Lexingtonian]

5. remember Nguyen Ngoc Loan?

http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0410/faas.html

Sounds like we're recapitulating the whole f'ing Vietnam War, as if not a single detail can be left out.

[Be Brave]

6. The US coddling a dictator for its self-interest.

Same-o, same-o.

[Wiley50]

7. We have a lot of SOBs

both there and here

[tandem5]

8. ah well who hasn't executed six people!? He's scrappy - got spunk! nt

[Ouabache]

10. you betcha

just a reflection of his imperialist masters.

[tedzbear]

9. Although it failed in South Viet-Nam, the chimp thinks this time he'll...

...get it right. After all, he's smarter than Johnson and Nixon.