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More leftist disinformation to discredit the administration and war record.
These people aren't P.O.W.s. They are brigands and criminals of the lowest order.
He could shoot them all as far as I'm concerned.
Great start to a great new government!
These allegations are going to be ignored.
Sorry to break it to you.
"Iyad Allawi, is accused of the cold-blooded murder of up to six young men just days before he took power."
This is probably what it will take. Glad it's them doing it and not our people.
They've been trying to give this story legs for weeks. So far no other reporter has managed to find any evidence he was even in the prison. They'll sacrifice Iraq if it means making Bush look bad.
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That WE installed? Well, kinda, sorta.
If Alawi is crooked, let's DO have that orgn. known for its honesty and integrity--the UN, investigate. NOT!
Sounds like more muck raising by the left.
vaudine
Apparently, it takes alot longer for news to reach Syndey. This report was on this sight last week?
I still feel the same way about this today as I did then, GO Allawi!
If these "insurgents" were of a different nationality, i.e. Saudi or Pakistani, and were found in civilian dress, they could be summarily executed as spies...IAW GC!....
Somebody please wake me up if the new Iraqi government summarily executes all the troublemakers it can get its hands on. Thanks.
---The witnesses refuse to be named. Indeed, they fear the revelation of even the smallest detail that might identify them. ---
Right! I don't suppose Allawi remembers who was there while he was busy shooting people in the head. This is the lamest thing I've heard in awhile. This paper needs to hire at least one person with a modicum of intelligence to screen their "stories" before they commit them to type.
PAUL McGEOUGH: There was a surprise visit at about 10:30 in the morning to the police centre. The PM is said to have talked to a large group of policemen, then to have toured the complex. They came to a courtyard where six, sorry seven prisoners were lined up against a wall. They were handcuffed, they were blindfolded, they were described to me as an Iraqi colloquialism for the fundamentalist foreign fighters who have come to Baghdad.Okay we have:They have that classic look that you see with many of the Osama bin Laden associates of the scraggly beard and the very short hair and they were a sort of ... took place in front of them as they were up against this wall was an exchange between the Interior Minister and Dr Allawi, the Interior Minister saying that he felt like killing them on the spot.
The Interior Minister lives to the north of Baghdad, and on June 19, four of his bodyguards were killed in an attack on his home. He expressed the wish that he would like to kill all these men on the spot. The PM is said to have responded that they deserved worse than death, that each was responsible for killing more than 50 Iraqis each, and at that point, he is said to have pulled a gun and proceeded to aim at and shoot all seven. Six of them died, the seventh, according to one witness, was wounded in the chest, according to the other witness, was wounded in the neck and presumed to be dead.
As explained by the witnesses, neither of them could put a precise date on the incident.
MAXINE McKEW: Your sources of course will be sought out by other news agencies after tonight. Will they stand up to scrutiny?
PAUL McGEOUGH: Well I don't know whether others will find them or not. I won't be making them available to anyone. I've given undertakes that I would protect their identities absolutely and I have to stand by that.
1. A surprise visit where these prisoners were already blindfolded and lined up against the wall before the exchange between the PM and the IM even took place. [Doesn't pass the smell test...]
2. They are described as foreign insurgents who infiltrated a sovereign country to wage war against it's government and had killed Iraqi citizens. [Let's call them what they are: terrorists]
3. Neither witness could put an exact date on the execution. [How Clintonesque!]
4. He will not tell anyone who made the accusations. [Now...we all know how much credibility to give to "unamed sources"..
What say y'all? I actually found myself in agreement once with McGeough...
PAUL McGEOUGH: "You're right about the Baghdad rumour mill, it's ferocious."
I will ignore them with no difficulty.
Presstitutes caught again...
Editor defensive over discredited Iraq reports (shows the media lied about Iraq once again)
The Australian ^
Posted on 06/22/2005 7:01:32 PM PDT by jmc1969
THE editor of Melbourne's The Age newspaper has defended Australia's Journalist of the Year, Paul McGeough, in the wake of revelations that he may have erred in two significant reports he filed from Iraq.
McGeough claimed in an article published in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald that former Iraqi interim leader Iyad Allawi shot dead as many as six prisoners in June last year.
But the story was discredited by a report yesterday that Iraqi officials and US special forces bodyguards assigned to Allawi had passed lie detector tests in denying the murder allegations.
"My view is that we have to trust our journalists," The Age editor Andrew Jaspan said yesterday.
"Paul McGeough is a former editor-in-chief of the Sydney Morning Herald - (an) extremely well-respected journalist. It's not as though he's wet behind the ears when he goes to somewhere like Iraq.
"As an editor I have to trust the fact that he is being professional, doing his job well, and on that basis we run his stories," Jaspan said.
A Sydney newspaper quoted a senior government official as saying there was "no evidence whatsoever to support the claims made in the (McGeough) article".
A winner of last year's Graeme Perkin Award for Australian Journalist of the Year, McGeough also reported on Saturday that the rescue of hostage Douglas Wood had supposedly been botched by an Australian raid on a Sunni political leader in Baghdad.
But senior government and defence sources have since said the leader, Sheik Hassan Zadaan, had no specific knowledge of Wood's kidnapping and the raid made "no difference".
Jaspan told ABC radio he stood by the chief correspondent for the Fairfax broadsheets, who risked his life working under cover in Iraq.
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Wouldn't one have to be "an ally" of Saddam to even get out of Iraq?
Hey, CIA guys, let's see you take an ax to the head. Then we'll let you have a few minutes with the guys who have been killing your family, friends and countrymen. Not to mention trying to kill you for years. I'm sure you'll want to have a tea party with the thugs.