From the Irony Is Dead Department:
The New York Times reports that the US is illegally jailing Arabs and others. However, apparently through editing errors, almost all occurrences of "United States" were erroneously replaced with "Kurds" when the story went to press:
Kurds Are Illegally Jailing Arabs and Others, U.S. Says
Kurdish [U.S.] security forces have seized scores of minority Arabs and Turkmens in the restive city of Kirkuk [Detroit, in Iraq, Afghanistan, and pretty much wherever they could find them] and secretly transferred them in violation of Iraqi law [the U.S. Constitution, Geneva Conventions, and international law] to prisons in Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Iraq [Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere], American officials said [denied] Wednesday.
It goes on:
"We have had serious and credible information about allegations of extrajudicial conduct, both arrests and detentions of individuals in the northern areas of
Iraq [the U.S., as well as secret home searches and wiretaps without warrants]," a State Department spokesman, Sean McCormack, said Wednesday at the department's daily news briefing.
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"The issues that we were talking about did concern the city of Kirkuk and surrounding areas in northern Iraq [blue states and urban centers], and I did talk about the importance of protection of minority rights," said Mr. McCormack. "These allegations and these reports are of very serious concern to us, and we have raised our concerns in a forthright way with the authorities involved, or who we believe to be involved. [Or whatever. We told a guy. OK, the bartender. Whatever.]"
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The United States military has been aware of allegations of the secret transfers since early this year after family members complained that their relatives had been abducted, said Maj. Richard Goldenberg, a spokesman for the military's 42nd Infantry Division, which has responsibility for much of northern Iraq.
[The Major said he had no idea where they would have learned such behavior - certainly not from the United States. We never do that sort of thing at home.]
Just a thought: maybe we should at least make an effort to respect human rights in U.S.-controlled prisons before we go trying to get other groups to.