Tuesday, May 11, 2004
In the understandable, overdue clamour for the heads of Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, it is easy to forget Paul Bremer. It's bad enough that US policy in Iraq forced Abdel Bassat Turki, the US-appointed human rights minister in Iraq, to resign last month. But even worse, Turki claims that he informed Bremer last November and December of the widespread abuse in US prisons, but Bremer did nothing. Turki even asked for permission to visit Abu Ghraib, but Bremer denied his request.
This gives the lie to the claim that there can be Iraqi sovereignty while the US military is present, at least under the present administration's policies.
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From the University of Skövde
BUT ... I suspect that much of what we're seeing was so routine that the military just replied to any concerns "It's a war .. this is what we have to do to get the intelligence that we need" !!!!!
