Hearts and minds at any cost
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1259859,00.html
Aid agencies have been increasingly co-opted into the war on terror,
fatally compromising their neutrality and effectiveness
Isabel Hilton
Tuesday July 13, 2004
The Guardian
The story of Jonathan Idema, the ex-Green Beret arrested in Kabul for
running his own private Abu Ghraib, would be comic if it were not so
grotesque. Idema represented himself as a "security adviser", a
euphemism, it seems, for his private pursuit of the $25m bounty on the
head of Osama bin Laden. Had he chanced upon Bin Laden in a teashop in
Kabul he would have been a Rambo-style hero. Instead, he's under
arrest. His defence should have a field day.
Isabel Hilton
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