Posted on 06/09/2005 7:44:39 PM PDT by wagglebee
No, that's the Secretary General of Amnesty International the article refers to. I don't know about Kofi, but it wouldn't surprise me - nothing would.
OK, I did it. I'd like to see a lot of deeper reporting on AI. I've always assumed they were legit, if occasionally a little soft-headed. They are appearing more and more like the scrambled brains of Dean and Rangel and worse. Profoundly Political with a strong streak of hatred. They make me think of George Orwell.
I knew what you were talking about.
But when I saw SG, KA went through my mind because, yes, he is a Muslim from Ghana.
AI is a lost cause... They don't seem to want to call the N. Korean Gulags, a Gulag, but keeping terrorists locked up offends them so greatly. And they're proud of it:
Khan’s deputy, Kate Gilmore, noted that the gulag comment has served the organization well. "We're getting more airing of our message than we would have otherwise," she said.
They starting to make the hypocrites at the UN (Terrorism's silent partner at the United Nations) look like amateurs.
I'm so tired of all their whining I think I could use that cup of Kofi you were talking about after all.
"But when I saw SG, KA went through my mind because, yes, he is a Muslim from Ghana."
I have heard that before, but can't find a source or a link to confirm. Do you have one?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1420022/posts?page=44 (snip)
An estimated 200,000 people are being held in the Kwan-li-co and related systems, in conditions of unspeakable brutality. Accounts of life (such as it is) in the camps remind one of Solzhenitsyn’s narratives, or Primo Levi’s, or other firsthand confirmation of the cruelty and viciousness of the total state in dealing with those it has rendered helpless. How many ways can a person be tortured? How many ways can someone be killed? Is no offense against totalitarian order too small to be overlooked? Are there no limits to the depravity of man? Read some of these accounts and compare. To the average North Korean prisoner, Guantanamo, with its wholesome food, hygienic sanitation, medical care, regular religious services, fresh clothes, forgiving climate, trained personnel, and periodic Red Cross visits would be an astonishing land of plenty. The same goes for the average North Korean citizen.
CALLING AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL...ANYONE THERE?
Yeah
Ms. Khan, during her tenure at A.I., has exploited every possible example of human rights violations OTHER THAN THOSE committed by the P.R.O.P.*
...Including those against women (gen. mutilation ring any bells?)
Words can hardly express my disappointment at how far Amn. has fallen since I was a member in the early/mid eighties, as they militated for the release of Andrei Sakharov...
*{Phony Religion Of Peace}
A.A.C.
bttt
Amnesty International is there to make sure that every terrorist has a lawyer, a warm bed and a koran that hasn't been pee'd on...
Truth is the first casualty of a propagandist.
Because there are terrorists blowing up themselves as they walk amongst crowds of innocent people, "the world is a more dangerous place"?
But the blame is leveled where?
at the United States of America.
Irene Khan, (great, great grandaughter of Ghengis?) is a member of the "Right is Wrong" crowd.
"Because there are terrorists blowing up themselves as they walk amongst crowds of innocent people, "the world is a more dangerous place"?"
Yep, because if you are a muslim and a marxist to boot, you would realize as she does, the only reason they are forced to blow themselves up and kill innocent civilians is because...the US is the Great Satan and the Evil Joooos run the world.
I got that right, didn't I?
The ONLY good thing about those stupid terrorists blowing themselves up in crowds of innocent people is that they can only do their evil deed once.
Then the real terrorists have to look for another patsy to carry their water.
The evil politics fueling Amnesty's version of "human rights violations" is making me very sick.
To think AI used to be interested in individual freedom and human rights. They used to represent the truly oppressed, those jailed and tortured for speaking out in Communist countries against repressive and torturous dictatorships.
Now what are they? Blind leaders who have completely lost sight of the goal line, running hard in the opposite direction.
In short, they're our 21st Century idiots!
"To think AI used to be interested in individual freedom and human rights. They used to represent the truly oppressed, those jailed and tortured for speaking out in Communist countries against repressive and torturous dictatorships."
I guess that must have been before they sold their soul to islam!
unfortunately, you have to be a subscriber in order to get into the WSJ Online.
Shakir is mentioned in the 9/11 Commission Report; both in the body of the report and in the footnotes.
He is believed to be an Iraqi who attended at least one 9/11 planning meeting. That makes him pretty important as it will give lie to the media's obsessive claim there were no connections between OBL and Saddam.
The media lies about that all the time, btw, despite the fact that in the mid to late 90's they wrote dozens of articles about the world's alarm at the growing relationship between Osama and Saddam.
A few of their headlines from the 90's are located in this link, as well as more detailed mention of Shakir and his possible role in 9/11.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1327993/posts
Thanks for the ping!
They used to come to NYC and stand around handing out literature. If I see one of them now, they are in for the Riot Act.
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