{"id":319,"date":"2004-07-16T11:46:03","date_gmt":"2004-07-16T15:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=319"},"modified":"2004-07-16T11:46:03","modified_gmt":"2004-07-16T15:46:03","slug":"the-new-saddam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"The New Saddam?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Would anybody actually be surprised if the following story<\/a>, reported in today’s Sydney Morning Herald<\/i> was true? The writer, Paul McGeough, was further grilled on his report<\/a> late last night by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.<\/p>\n

Allawi shot prisoners in cold blood: witnesses<\/b>
\nBy Paul McGeough in Baghdad
\nJuly 17, 2004<\/p>\n

Iyad Allawi, the new Prime Minister of Iraq, pulled a pistol and executed as many as six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station, just days before Washington handed control of the country to his interim government, according to two people who allege they witnessed the killings. <\/p>\n

They say the prisoners – handcuffed and blindfolded – were lined up against a wall in a courtyard adjacent to the maximum-security cell block in which they were held at the Al-Amariyah security centre, in the city’s south-western suburbs. <\/p>\n

They say Dr Allawi told onlookers the victims had each killed as many as 50 Iraqis and they “deserved worse than death”.<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister’s office has denied the entirety of the witness accounts in a written statement to the Herald, saying Dr Allawi had never visited the centre and he did not carry a gun.<\/p>\n

But the informants told the Herald that Dr Allawi shot each young man in the head as about a dozen Iraqi policemen and four Americans from the Prime Minister’s personal security team watched in stunned silence.<\/p><\/div>\n

Why do I have a feeling we won’t be hearing much about this in the NY Times<\/i> or CNN? (See my upcoming article<\/a> shortly for more details).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Would anybody actually be surprised if the following story, reported in today’s Sydney Morning Herald was true? The writer, Paul McGeough, was further grilled on his report late last night by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Allawi shot prisoners in cold blood: witnesses By Paul McGeough in Baghdad July 17, 2004 Iyad Allawi, the new Prime […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}