Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss
Nov 27th, 2005 at 1:29 pm by Susie
Well, we saw this one coming. Via Kevin:
So how are things going in Iraq? First up, let’s hear from Ayad Allawi, formerly prime minister in the interim government:
In a damning and wide-ranging indictment of Iraq’s escalating human rights catastrophe, Allawi accused fellow Shias in the government of being responsible for death squads and secret torture centres. The brutality of elements in the new security forces rivals that of Saddam’s secret police, he said.
….’We are hearing about secret police, secret bunkers where people are being interrogated,’ he added. ‘A lot of Iraqis are being tortured or killed in the course of interrogations. We are even witnessing Sharia courts based on Islamic law that are trying people and executing them.’
He said that immediate action was needed to dismantle militias that continue to operate with impunity. If nothing is done, ‘the disease infecting [the Ministry of the Interior] will become contagious and spread to all ministries and structures of Iraq’s government’, he said.
It’s a lie! A vicious lie!
Clearly, we need to bomb Suburban Guerilla!
Hypocrite. Those abuses were well established while he was Interim Prime Minister. The only difference then was that US forces looked on in approval. I still remember his govt gloating about how many detainees they had. Any sickness that exists now in the Interior Ministry he had a hand in creating.
There were reports that Alawi executed people himself, *personally.*
That maybe true, or maybe not. But it is possible, given what we know of him.
This much we do know: He is running his own slate in the upcoming election, and his rhetoric targeted against the Shi’ite religious slate.