Lutetia

More allegations

Afgha.com - Afghan police colonel says U.S. forces abused him

The accusations of "abuse" are popping up everywhere some real and, most likely, some false.

This one seems quite convincing. The thing pricked my ears up, however, was the following paragraph:

Ahmed Zia Langari, a member of the Afghan Human Rights Commission, said it informed the United Nations last August of Siddiqui's case and requested help in setting up a meeting with coalition forces. No meeting has taken place, he said.

It was only once an article in the New York Times flagged the story that the army decided to investigate.

The scandal in all these stories is that no-one in the upper echelons took these allegations seriously until these galling photos appeared. CBS even embargoed the original pics at Gen. Myers request. It was only when they heard that the New Yorker was going to run the story that they released the story.

Even then, as point out below, it took everyone in America (of whatever opinion) some time to react to it. Like really bad latency on satelite net connection.

The new Europe

Even the Police have to dodge taxes in Germany:

Hard-up police in Eastern Germany are dodging taxes by buying their petrol in Poland.
Police spokesman Detlef Lueben said officers in the Oder district of Frankfurt took the step because of rising petrol prices.

Stick your head in the sand

The most shocking thing about the Iraq torture pics is not the nauseating pics themselves, but the fact that no-one in America, left or right, seems to want to mention them. The exception, of course, being CBS, who broke the news.

The silence in the blogosphere is deafening.

The last compelling reason for going into Iraq (human rights) is seriously eroded. The forced oral sex is then most sickening one IMHO.

The picture above is, in fact, surreal