Found by way of Raed in the Middle is this photoblog maintained by his mother. Very cool pictures and web journal. (The family that blogs together....? )
War & Peace: August 2004 Archives
This man was working on a documentary about Iraq's archeological sites. He is one of the good guys, a fact lost on his kidnappers, of course. And his mother lives in Newton, where I was last weekend (my fiance is from there and his parents still live there too.)
My pedantic brain couldn't help noticing just how poor this story about the kidnapping was, though...
Updated to add: he was released safely, thankfully!
Continue reading Good journalist kidnapped, awful news story about it.
This story, about a journalist working on a documentary about Iraq's archeological sites who has been kidnapped there, caught my attention — talk about "no good deed going unpunished"!
What this am I talking about?
This this.
It was early last October that Kasim Mehaddi Hilas says he witnessed the rape of a boy prisoner aged about 15 in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. “The kid was hurting very bad and they covered all the doors with sheets,” he said in a statement given to investigators probing prisoner abuse in Abu Ghraib. “Then, when I heard the screaming I climbed the door … and I saw [the soldier’s name is deleted] who was wearing a military uniform.” Hilas, who was himself threatened with being sexually assaulted in Abu Graib, then describes in horrific detail how the soldier raped “the little kid”.
In another witness statement, passed to the Sunday Herald, former prisoner Thaar Salman Dawod said: “[I saw] two boys naked and they were cuffed together face to face and [a US soldier] was beating them and a group of guards were watching and taking pictures and there was three female soldiers laughing at the prisoners. The prisoners, two of them, were young.”
It’s not certain exactly how many children are being held by coalition forces in Iraq, but a Sunday Herald investigation suggests there are up to 107. Their names are not known, nor is where they are being kept, how long they will be held or what has happened to them during their detention...
The Sunday Herald being quoted is a paper in Scotland. That's great, but Scottish people don't get to vote these wankers out of office. Only Americans can do that -- and if they don't know all the crap that's taking place in our name, in the name of "the war on terrorism", how can they/we make an informed decision? Oh, silly me, I forgot what country I live in... is anybody on the case at all?In another witness statement, passed to the Sunday Herald, former prisoner Thaar Salman Dawod said: “[I saw] two boys naked and they were cuffed together face to face and [a US soldier] was beating them and a group of guards were watching and taking pictures and there was three female soldiers laughing at the prisoners. The prisoners, two of them, were young.”
It’s not certain exactly how many children are being held by coalition forces in Iraq, but a Sunday Herald investigation suggests there are up to 107. Their names are not known, nor is where they are being kept, how long they will be held or what has happened to them during their detention...
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