July 20, 2004

US media kills story that Iraqi PM executed 6 prisoners

The "US mainstream news media" is not only choosing
keep you uninformed about the video tapes that
document the sodomizing of young boys in the custody
of the US military at Abu Ghraib, it is also choosing
to keep you uninformed about this very disturbing story from the Bush cabal's "liberation" of Iraq...

Khalid Hasan, Daily Times (Pakistan): The US media has
surprisingly failed to pick up the shocking disclosure
by Sydney Morning Herald, Australia’s leading
newspaper, that the Irqai Prime Minister Iyad Allawi
personally executed six suspected insurgents in a
Baghdad police station.
The story by award-winning Australian journalist Paul
McGeough said that the prisoners were handcuffed and
blindfolded, lined up against a courtyard wall and
shot by the Iraqi PM. Dr Allawi is alleged to have
told those around him that he wanted to send a clear
message to the police on how to deal with insurgents.
Two people allege they witnessed the killings and
there are also claims the Iraqi interior minister and
four American men were present.

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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_19-7-2004_pg1_2

US media kills story that Iraqi PM executed 6 prisoners

By Khalid Hasan

WASHINGTON: The US media has surprisingly failed to
pick up the shocking disclosure by Sydney Morning
Herald, Australia’s leading newspaper, that the Irqai
Prime Minister Iyad Allawi personally executed six
suspected insurgents in a Baghdad police station.

The story by award-winning Australian journalist Paul
McGeough said that the prisoners were handcuffed and
blindfolded, lined up against a courtyard wall and
shot by the Iraqi PM. Dr Allawi is alleged to have
told those around him that he wanted to send a clear
message to the police on how to deal with insurgents.
Two people allege they witnessed the killings and
there are also claims the Iraqi interior minister and
four American men were present.

An Australian television channel interviewed the
reporter who is in Iraq telling him that the Allawi
family had denied the story. He replied, “Well it’s a
very contentious issue. What you have is two very
solid eyewitness accounts. Each witness is not aware
that the other spoke.”

The Australian journalist said, “Well, I’ll take you
through what the two witnesses said to give you the
full chronology as I understand it. There was a
surprise visit at about 10:30am to the police centre.
The PM talked to policemen and then toured the
complex. They came to a courtyard where six, sorry
seven prisoners were lined up against a wall. They
were blindfolded, they were described to me as an
Iraqi colloquialism for the fundamentalist foreign
fighters who came to Baghdad. 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,
saying that he felt like killing them on the spot.

The interior minister 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.
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. On the incident date, the
correspondent said, “It happened on or around the
weekend of June 19/20 — three weeks after Dr Allawi
was named PM and one week before the handover.”


Posted by richard at July 20, 2004 10:37 AM