Paradise is always where love dwells.
Paradise is always where love dwells.
The photographs uncovered by WorldNetDaily as fodder for Arab propaganda accompanied an article in the Boston paper about local city councilor Chuck Turner, who distributed the graphic pictures Tuesday at a press conference with activist Sadiki Kambon.
Turner told reporters the photos showed U.S. soldiers raping Iraqi women, asserting, that the American people have a right and responsibility to see the pictures.
The Globe's statement today, listed as an editor's note, merely says the photographs failed to meet Globe standards and had not been authenticated.
The paper chose not to inform readers that its editorial department has known for the past 24 hours that the photos were fake images taken from the pornographic website 'Sex in War'.
The Globe did not confirm or deny the legitimacy of the images or the allegations prior to publication.
The effects of the international scandal over Iraqi prisoner abuse continue to be compounded in the Arab and Muslim worlds by fake images of rape, torture and sadomasochism taken from pornography sites and distributed on pro-Islamist websites – including even news sites
The US is trying to export democracy throughout the Middle East. There is no chance of that, says the Egyptian newspaper editor and democracy campaigner, Nabil Zaki.
"Now anything connected with the Americans is disliked," he told me, "Ninety nine per cent of the people of this region hate the Americans. They consider them aggressors."
Al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya have both been criticised by the coalition, accused of hostile, inflammatory and inaccurate coverage. In common with the rest of the Arab media, they say the photographs show they were right all along.
Damage done
The Iraqi newspaper al-Bayyinah carried a 2,000-word article, under the headline "Homosexuals Abuse Iraqis", which said that Abu Ghraib had been turned into a "cowboy night club".
"US soldiers drink alcohol over the prisoners' bodies while the minarets make the call to prayer," it said.
And another set of photographs is circulating on Arabic-language web sites. It apparently shows two Iraqi women, both wearing traditional black robes, being raped at gunpoint by men described as wearing US Army uniforms.
These pictures do not seem genuine: the uniforms do not seem right. The pictures of British soldiers abusing Iraqis might not be genuine either. But the damage has been done.
"The time will come when Iraqis will react to this," said al-Jazeera. In Kuwait, one of America's friends in the Arab world, al-Watan newspaper warned of "a gift to Islamic fundamentalists trying hard to defile the image of America".
So perhaps, in the backroom of a mosque in Saudi Arabia, in Yemen, or in Iraq itself, a young Muslim is being shown these photographs - and is recruited for jihad.
Hillary Clinton, in late 1997 chaired a White House conference on the issue of child care, telling Time, "You have to put the issue in front of the American people and get them to look at it honestly."
First Lady, Clinton embraced the Palestinian First Lady Suha Arafat; it was Hillary Clinton who leaned on Janet Reno to order the disastrous assault at Waco.
Gail Sheehy in her book; "Hillary’s Choice" wrote that Hillary persuaded Bill Clinton to bomb in Kosovo, and that Hillary insisted to Bill in phone calls over 48 hours from North Africa in March of ‘99: "You can’t let this ethnic cleansing go on at the end of the century that has seen the Holocaust." But it turns out that was false intellegence, because the original estimates of 100,000 are now reduced to 10,000 by the State Department, and yet the UN inspection team only found 2,200 bodies. The UN spent a lot of time looking for the mass graves. They could only find about 2,200 bodies. Many of those were Serbian bodies.
The State Department revised downward their 100,000 figure of dead Kosovar Albanians to 10,000 even though the UN only said 2,200. Do 2,200 bodies justify bombing an entire nation into the stone age?
How it is that Hillary Clinton could take a figure like 100,000 people, push the president into bombing Kosovo, and get away with it? How is it that she is now sitting in judgment of president Bush and blowing this prison scandal entirely out of proportion, sullying America in the world's eyes, and risking not only our military peoples lives by instigating more violence, hate and disrespect against them, but also putting the whole of America at more intense risk of another terrorist attack.
This attacking our ability to get information about terrorist plots and conspiracies before they happens actually makes them coconspirators to the terrorist plots by aiding the terrorist in not be caught before they put their murderous conspiracies into action.
Just as Jamie Gorlick built a wall between communication between the CIA and FBI so that information about international terrorist was not shared with the domestic agency, allowing CIA known terrorist to operate here on our American soil against us; so those who are now dragging this country through the mud for a 'scandal' that is not institutionalized, but rather the work of individuals, at a time of war, are knowingly compromising our national security for the sake of their own greedy political aspirations.
"The bottom line is that leadership has to be responsible and held accountable and that is not just in the prison in Baghdad," Clinton told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
"That goes all the way up the chain of command," she insisted.
Reminded by Blitzer that interrogation practices like "putting hoods over the heads of prisoners, prisoner sleep deprivation, food deprivation, humiliation . . . have been used for as long as prisoners in wars have been interrogated," [not to mention the Islamic natural love of wearing hoods for masks ~ beau schott] Clinton said that the U.S. needed to be careful not to treat Iraqi terrorist suspects too harshly.
"I don't care whether it's military or civilian," she told CNN. "Anyone acting on behalf of our government is supposed to abide by certain rules and regulations. Clearly, there are interrogation methods that are deemed appropriate but what we have seen on our television screens in no way can be considered appropriate or necessary or frankly even effective."
It's just too bad for the Branch Davidians that she was unaware of the finer points 'certain rules and regulations' then. And we can be certain that she is aware of, and practices as an art, effective interrogation techniques, that is how she knows that the ones that she would allow our military use are ineffective.
"I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor bastard die for his" -- General George S. Patton, June 1944
"It's God's responsibility to forgive Bin Laden...It's our responsibility to arrange the meeting." -- United States Marines Corps
