The Sydney Morning Herald - Australia's answer to the New York Times - is leading with a story that new Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi personally executed six handcuffed prisoners only days before he was sworn in.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/16/1089694568757.html?oneclick=true
Iyad Allawi, the new Prime Minister of Iraq, pulled a pistol and executed as many as six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station, just days before Washington handed control of the country to his interim government, according to two people who allege they witnessed the killings.
They say the prisoners - handcuffed and blindfolded - were lined up against a wall in a courtyard adjacent to the maximum-security cell block in which they were held at the Al-Amariyah security centre, in the city's south-western suburbs.
I guess Bush was right. Iraq is going to be a democratic beacon for the rest of the Middle East to follow....NOT