politics: Hook, line and sinker
It was a lovely Kodak moment. Truly.
In case you missed this, a contributor at Daily Kos did some digging. Safia Taleb Al Souhail's story seemed a little too pat, a little bit too much like a Hallmark Channel movie.
And it is. It is.
It seems she left Iraq in 1968, and returned to Iraq sometime after the invasion. Her father, the one killed by Saddam's intelligence services? In Lebanon. For planning a coup d'etat against Saddam. Truly a bad thing wherever it happened, but I have an instinctive mistrust of people who leave out key pieces of stories in order to make their narrative flow more smoothly.
She seems to have returned to Iraq shortly after the invasion. She works with a 'non-partisan' organization, International Alliance For Justice, which received $950,000 from the US Congress in 2002 and which really seems to be an American right-wing front group (nominally based in Paris, oddly enough, though a 2003 article shows them based in Washington, D.C.) ... the most left-leaning person on their board of directors is Zell Miller.
Oh yeah. And she's the Iraqi ambassador to Egypt.
Oh, yes, I know there's no smoking gun here, like some revelation that her name is actually Mary Singletary and she's actually from Walla Walla. But and Iraqi politician who's spent most of her life in exile, and most of her exile in the United States, is hardly some average citizen plucked at random to represent the ordinary Iraqi. She certainly has a lot to gain in terms of payback and personal power from the success of the BushCo agenda.
Read the unfolding story at the above link. It's an interesting, evolving research project.
In case you missed this, a contributor at Daily Kos did some digging. Safia Taleb Al Souhail's story seemed a little too pat, a little bit too much like a Hallmark Channel movie.
And it is. It is.
It seems she left Iraq in 1968, and returned to Iraq sometime after the invasion. Her father, the one killed by Saddam's intelligence services? In Lebanon. For planning a coup d'etat against Saddam. Truly a bad thing wherever it happened, but I have an instinctive mistrust of people who leave out key pieces of stories in order to make their narrative flow more smoothly.
She seems to have returned to Iraq shortly after the invasion. She works with a 'non-partisan' organization, International Alliance For Justice, which received $950,000 from the US Congress in 2002 and which really seems to be an American right-wing front group (nominally based in Paris, oddly enough, though a 2003 article shows them based in Washington, D.C.) ... the most left-leaning person on their board of directors is Zell Miller.
Oh yeah. And she's the Iraqi ambassador to Egypt.
Oh, yes, I know there's no smoking gun here, like some revelation that her name is actually Mary Singletary and she's actually from Walla Walla. But and Iraqi politician who's spent most of her life in exile, and most of her exile in the United States, is hardly some average citizen plucked at random to represent the ordinary Iraqi. She certainly has a lot to gain in terms of payback and personal power from the success of the BushCo agenda.
Read the unfolding story at the above link. It's an interesting, evolving research project.
posted by Chris | 6:42 PM
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