Saturday, diary virgin, and stinking cold notwithstanding, I had to write tonight, so please be kind.
In September last year Eugene Armstrong and Jack Hensley, two Americans, along with Kenneth Bigley, a Brit, were taken hostage. Eventually, all three were beheaded. The ransom demand for their release was the release of female Iraqi prisoners.
Today, Italian reporter Giuliana Sgrena was released. Interestingly, Giuliana was reporting (amongst other things) on the torture of women and children in Abu Ghraib and other prisons in Iraq. Yet did not the US military and the British and American governments claim in September of last year that there were no Iraqi female prisoners? They claimed there were two exceptions: Rihab Rashid Taha, a scientist who became known as "Dr. Germ" for helping Iraq make weapons out of anthrax, and Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, a biotech researcher known as "Mrs. Anthrax. More below:
Guiliana's story at
http://www.ilmanifesto.it/pag/sgrena/en/420dc5a37ba4d.html makes it clear that Tony Blair and George Bush and their minions outright lied. The families of these hostages should sue them to hell and back.
I just don't get why the stories of the Iraqi women and children don't even seem to come up in North American press.
I'm off to dose myself and put my tin foil hat on. I do not understand how the Fifth Estate can sleep at night. I do not know how any of us can sleep at night.
When will the truth be show the light of day?