US official confirms Allawi shot six dead

[Dover]

From the Sydney Morning Herald in Australia:

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article7749.htm


US official confirms Allawi shot six dead

January 19, 2005


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...cont'd

[mhr]

1. Look At The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss

eom

[ckramer]

2. Does this mean US no longer want to see him get elected?

Otherwise this secret would never leak out.

[Cobalt Violet]

4. No, war crimes don't matter anymore. The party will go on.

The right-wingers and people thy support don't suffer any consequence for anything anymore.

[Igel]

8. Might just improve his image in Iraq:

If more people dislike/fear the insurgents than like/are comfortable with them, having killed some is good politics.

[Stepup2]

3. Sounds like the tactics of the last

leader we installed/propped in that country.

argh: :argh:

[54anickel]

5. Another "John Wayne cowboy", yep he's Shrubby's man!!! Bet the

little BeezleBush is envious that he can't do the same here - yet. Must explain his fascination with Saddam's pistol.

[caligirl]

6. This was in the news when it happened. I remember emailing articles on it

and I think it was in foreign press, not US press.

[MrPrax]

10. Your not a alone...

I distinctly remember arguing online with mostly Americans who said it was garbage...propaganda...nonsense...liberal sourgrapes

Iraqi PM shot inmates: reports
Saturday, July 17, 2004.

Iraq's interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, has been accused of shooting seven Iraqi insurgents, killing six of them, in the week leading up to the handover of power from the US last month.

Two unnamed people alleged to have seen the shootings have told Australian journalist Paul McGeough that Dr Allawi shot the insurgents in a courtyard adjacent to a maximum security cell in Baghdad.

Dr Allawi's office has denied the claims.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1156008.htm

(Among many many other foreign press cites of this story)

Amazingly, the US press has struck on the novel idea, of having the foreign press do real journalism, and then if it turns out to be true--they re-package it as an exclusive.

I hope the New Yorker has the decency of crediting Paul McGeough, who took a lot of heat, by Howard's government for being a reporter

[caligirl]

11. Yep it was the Aussies who weren't afraid to say it, thats the article.

[UL_Approved]

7. Never in the MSM

Not to hard to see how our media is biased. This is a good example of how our news services are heavily censored.

[bloodyjack]

9. I don't think he will survive 2005.

[pinniped]

12. After the rigged (s)elections he will be more wanted than ever.

I hereby declare Allawi the winner.:party:

[bloodyjack]

13. He's made too enemies already.

That, and he's playing for the wrong team.

[Lostnote03]

14. He will get invited to Bushs State Of The Union Address