`Allawi: Al-Arabiyya's Saga Continues. It may be longer than Gibbon's history. And `Allawi (the puppet prime minister/car bomber/Saddam's henchman/embezzler-in-Yemen) is a man of principle, according to himself only. I am taping the various parts of the silly saga/documentary/epic of Allawi on Al-Arabiyya TV, and watching them while working out. It is easier to contain my rage while watching that way. I just watched the 4th part. I take back something I had said in the archives. Larry King is not the worst interviewer; right-wing Lebanese "journalist" Elie Naquzi is. He is so ignorant, and so out of it, that he has nothing to offer. And sometimes he cuts off the former car bomber when telling what may be an interesting tale. He did not even know who Nadhim Kzar is. In this part, Allawi (running for the puppet elections in Iraq) went out of his way to distance himself from the US during the 1980s, when the US was close to Saddam. He claims that he was afraid of the US because of its alliance with Saddam. I say to him: It is too late to distance yourself from the US, ye US-installed puppet. I forget to mention that in a previous part, Allawi stressed that he liked to read. He specifically mentioned Newsweek and Time. And when you remember that Time magazine (the pride of American journalism) is written for the reading level of an 8th-grader, you know how advanced the reading skills of Allawi are. But in today's part, he slipped something explosive. He talked about a meeting with a Saddam messenger in 1982 in London. First, it is interesting that he accepted to meet with Saddam's messenger in 1982. Secondly, during the meeting, according to Allawi's own account, Allawi pledged to not conspire against the regime throughout the Iran-Iraq war. Even Naquzi observed that this is a major compromise. Allawi mumbled something, and moved on. What was also revealing is Allawi's account of the 1979 notorious Ba`th leadership meeting, in which Saddam read the name of people he accused of plotting against him, and then you see them leaving to be taken to be shot. It is one of the most horrific footage I have seen, and it reveals the cold-hearted brutality of Saddam. It has been maintained all along that the plot that Saddam claimed to have uncovered, was concocted by Saddam, to justify his brutal elimination of potential rivals. But Allawi now says that there was indeed a plot, and the he was aware of it. Allawi also revealed that he was closely associated with the South Yemeni regime, which supplied him with support and passports. Over the years, this man has worked with the governments of (mostly intelligence services) Syria, Jordan, South Yemen, US, UK, Saudi Arabia, and North Yemen. But despite the ideological differences among those regimes, the man is (in his mind) a man of principle. There is a good scathing critique of this "documentary" in As-Safir by an Iraqi writer. He says that Allawi comes across as "half-Saddam".