Posted on 05/26/2004 12:00:29 AM PDT by kattracks
May 26, 2004 -- WASHINGTON — The likely head of the new Iraqi government that takes power June 30 is a Shiite nuclear scientist jailed for years in Abu Ghraib prison for refusing to help Saddam Hussein make nuclear weapons, it was reported yesterday.The expected appointee is Hussain Shahristani, 62, a political novice close to the Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Iraq's most powerful cleric, The Washington Post said.
"If they consider my participation essential, I'll try to convince them otherwise. But if they're not convinced . . . I cannot refuse," Shahristani told the paper.
Post Wire Services
Obviously false story. There was no Iraqi nuclear weapons program.
I like the cut of his jib.
I wonder if he's got any pictures.
Worse than American MP's putting boogers on the prisoners' bagels?
I just thought all God's children had prison pictures. :-)
Iraq's first religion vs. science experience. I'll be surprised if a cleric/mullah isn't the first long seated president.
Some just have stories and the American media doesn't like those kind of news items. This paper from Lebanon was willing to run just such stories.
To Saddam's Prisoners, US Abuse Seems 'a Joke': Some feel past crimes have been forgotten
Speaking about one incident of interrogation/torture, a prisoner at Abu Ghraib gives this chilling, sickening description:"This is when they brought out his wife, who was five months pregnant. One of the guards said that if he refused to talk he would get 12 guards to rape his wife until she lost the baby. Amer said nothing. So they did. We were forced to watch. Whenever one of us cast down his eyes, they would beat us."
"Amer's wife didn't lose the baby. So the guard took a knife, cut her belly open and took the baby out with his hands. The woman and child died minutes later. Then the guard used the same knife to cut Amer's throat." There is a moment of silence. Then Idrissi says: "What we have seen about the recent abuse at Abu Ghraib is a joke to us."
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