July 17, 2004

Setting the tone I really don't have the first idea if this is true or false, but the link alleges that new Iraqi PM Allawi shot six prisoners in the head shortly before assuming power.

In Baghdad, accounts of the shootings are interpreted by observers as useful to a little-known returned exile of 33 years who needs to prove his leadership credentials as a "strongman" in a war-ravaged country that has no experience of democracy.

posted by Wolof 20 years ago
  • But Saddam had rape rooms....RAPE ROOMS I TELL YOU!!!
  • I didn't read the article since it's reg-required, but I got this from MeFi.
  • Also this article, last-fifth of the page(search for Allawi).
  • Ave! Duci nova, similis duci seneci. -- (from Night Watch) Mr. Slant, upon the installation of a new Patrician. Kind of apropos, I think.
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  • only six? what a pussy!
  • OK. Listen. Here's how you come to grips with what this really means: you take the original report and just replace the bit where he kills people with something innocuous, like, say, he makes some jelly. SO: The report actually reads - "Dr Allawi poured the fruit juice and lemon juice into the 10 quart kettle. Without blinking, he sprinkled this with pectin. Oh my god! He let each young man stand one or two minutes while he stirred the mixture to dissolve. He caused it to boil over medium-high heat while stirring frequently. Then he added the sugar. Oh Lord! He returned it to a full boil stirring often! Allah preserve me! I could not stand to watch! Allawi boiled hard for a minute, stirring constantly. All at once, quickly he removed it from the heat and skimmed off the foam with a metal spoon. About a dozen Iraqi policemen and four Americans from the Prime Minister's personal security team watched in stunned silence. No one had ever seen jelly made this way". See? NOW it comes into focus. You bunch of emotionally blunted fucknards.
  • Hey, sorry I missed your link, shawnj.
  • U.S. officials say privately he may actually have planted the stories about summary executions as part of a psychological smoke-and-mirrors game. "He wants to project that dual role -- to the West as a committed democrat, and to the Iraqis as a tough guy who got things done," says one diplomat. More people with no names, naturally.
  • He's done similar or worse in the past, with approval from Saddam and with the CIA.