Saturday, August 13, 2005
In a recent article by right-wing propagandist Christopher Hitchens he bragged about the case of `Ala' At-Tamimi, one of the Iraqis who was living abroad and was installed as mayor of Baghdad by Paul Bremer, and who was profiled by the New York Times too. This Tamimi was recently ousted by angry armed Iraqis loyal to the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. But what the US media did not say is that there were so many allegations of corruption by this Tamimi. And when Hitchens praises his friend Tamimi he forgets to tell you that he had worked on Saddam's nuclear weapons' program until the 1990s. And what is hilarious is that Hitchens uses the case of Tamimi to brag about "liberated" Iraq, while Tamimi himself (nobody knows where he is now) complains now about the new Iraq which has become according to him "a state of militias ruled by guns and not by democracy" as he told one Arab journalist who reached him.