From The Sydney Morning Herald, 1/19/05:
http://smh.com.au/articles/2005/01/18/1105810916006.html
US official confirms Allawi shot six dead
A former Jordanian government minister has told The New Yorker that an
American official confirmed to him that the Iraqi interim Prime
Minister, Iyad Allawi, executed six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad
police station last year.
The claim is in an extensive profile of Dr Allawi written for this
week's issue of the magazine by an American journalist, Jon Lee
Anderson, the author of The Fall of Baghdad and a regular Baghdad
correspondent for The New Yorker.
Writing about his research in Jordan in December, Anderson says:
"A well-known former government minister told me that an American
official had confirmed that the killings took place, saying to him,
'What a mess we're in - we got rid of one ***** only to get
another one'."
The New Yorker also revealed that Anderson was present during an
interview conducted by the Herald's chief correspondent, Paul
McGeough, in late June, with a man who said he witnessed the
executions by Dr Allawi.
Dr Allawi denied the allegations when they were published in the
Herald last July.
Anderson writes:
"The man ... described how Allawi had been taken to seven suspects,
who were made to stand against a wall in a courtyard of the police
station, their faces covered. After being told of their alleged crimes
by a police official, Allawi had asked for a pistol, and then shot
each prisoner in the head. [One of the men survived.] Afterward, the
witness said, Allawi had declared to those present, 'This is how we
must deal with the terrorists.' The witness said he approved of
Allawi's act, adding that, in any case, the terrorists were better off
dead, for they had been tortured for days."
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'What a mess we're in - we got rid of one ***** only to get
another one'. What did he expect? Allawi is a Bush choice, ain't he?
Harry
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