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Yet more Saddam sadness:
A daughter of Iraq’s ex-dictator Saddam Hussein was “outraged” by the published pictures of her jailed father dressed only in underwear, an aide said yesterday.
“She was shocked and outraged because of the pictures,” which appeared in a British newspaper, the aide of Raghad Hussein told AFP.
“She described the pictures as inhumane, and wondered why her father is not being treated as a human being and the father of three daughters,” the source said.
Saddam was also father-in-law to two of his daughters’ husbands. Until he had them both murdered.
UPDATE. Saddam wasn’t always so shy, reports Piers Akerman:
When he was in the box seat, as it were, happily murdering Iraqis, invading Kuwait and prosecuting the lengthy war against Iran, Saddam posed for the camera in his bathers a la Mao swimming the Yangtse.
Macho stuff. Man of Iron. There were no complaints about lack of modesty from the international salon of sorry sisters then. Nor were the handwringers too worried about reports of torture to the point of murder being carried out by Saddam’s jailers in Abu Ghraib.
Talking of human rights R.N.‘s presenter this morning was damning Philip Ruddock with reverse psychology.
“Philip Ruddock said he WAS the minister when Vivien Alvarez/Solon was deported.Philip Ruddock REJECTED the (accusation) that the immigration department was (imbued with) a pro-white culture.
The very fact that they have specially highlighted these two statements means that in the listener’s mind they must be highly significant,coming from the public broadcaster. Goodness knows what unjustified damage they cause via Radio Australia as well with these poisonous little jabs.I’ll only be outraged if they show the back of durps and they prove to be stained!
Posted by thunderbox jihad on 2005 05 24 at 12:42 AM • permalinkAng6666, cut & paste this into your browser: http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1292&storyid=3170188
#13 graboy. I think Saddman’s whelps are still alive because there’s so many of them. Same thing with Usama Bin Liner - they have so many wives and bastard offspring that if you were to kill them all you’d be done for genocide.
Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 05 24 at 05:40 AM • permalinkSaddam was also father-in-law to two of his daughters’ husbands. Until he had them both murdered.
He murdered to get power and he murdered to enhance it, and to keep it. I hope that him being kept alive serves some useful purpose. It is possible that he is a rallying symbol even now among some groups. Survival is a victory for some, and he has survived too long.If memory serves the famous footage of Saddam striding out of the river turned out to be of a body double.
Posted by James Hamilton on 2005 05 24 at 06:34 AM • permalinkI have some old family photos of Saddam in his dacks up here.
Posted by Blithering Bunny on 2005 05 24 at 06:51 AM • permalinkAnd another interesting link, regarding Uday’s purchase of favourable Arab media coverage at Al Jazeera:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=15947_Udays_Oil-for-News_Program&only;Where are the pictures of Saddam sitting on the terlet looking thoughtful?
Posted by Sword of Righteousness on 2005 05 24 at 07:47 AM • permalinkA daughter of Iraq’s ex-dictator Saddam Hussein was “outraged” by the published pictures of her jailed father dressed only in underwear, an aide said yesterday.
If I recall correctly, this isn’t the first time she’s complained about US forces abusing human rights. I think she put in her 2 cents worth during abugate.
“Raghad Hussein?” I’m sorry, but that’s right up there with that Monthly cover…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 24 at 01:03 PM • permalinkWhat I don’t get is how is this the fault of the US Government? Unlike Iraq, the US media and US Government are 2 seperate (mostly at odds) entities. It is not like the US Adminstration or Military wanted these photos to be published. Why would they do anything to possibly give Saddam points in his trial?
The obscenity in this story is the amount of column inches devoted to people’s supposed outrage. When did Hussien’s family become so sensitive & full of morals? Did they have a conversion on the road to Damascus too? Now I wonder what good news Chrenkoff has to say about this piece on non news ... probably very little.
Over at the Belmont club the theory is that the media is the real enemy and Iraq ‘atrocities’ are one of many weapons being used.
abc Fran on r.n. this a.m accidentally allowed a positive interviewee some air time.Jonathan Goodhand said of Afghanistan,“after all it IS a state now and it’s made amazing progress in three years”.
Another Arthur.He was supposed to be catastrophising about the drug trade.
Next, notice how Fran doesn’t object to naming nationalities when it suits her.
Catastrophising about the rogue doctor in the Qld health system..“INDIAN doctor Patel”.Next step probably would have been to blame the Feds for not enough doctors.James Hamilton, I am getting bounced emails from your <jhamiltonaus@netscape.net> account. FIX this problem or I will have to suspend your account.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 05 24 at 07:11 PM • permalinkOT
Hey, am I the only one getting a consistent 404 for Chrenkoff’s site?
Maybe he’s “too big” for blogger.com now?
Posted by zeppenwolf on 2005 05 24 at 10:17 PM • permalinkWomBatHead — neither were we, by 1812. Your point?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 24 at 11:48 PM • permalinkIf this is a one-off breach of the convention, they couldn’t have picked a more deserving candidate!
Posted by Big Johnny on 2005 05 25 at 12:00 AM • permalinkThe timeless tyranny of the West.
Here’s an excerpt from a 1981 Quadrant article (written by Barry Humphries):
I had managed to smuggle out of Australia some horrifying statistics on our prison system here, and people in Zagreb were sickened to learn that Australian jails are currently holding over a quarter of a million men and women against their will.
Their only crime was that they broke the law.
It’s this kind of American culture imperialism I try to expose in the final sequence of CAGE and I only managed to shoot it after the cast had been improvising for over a year in a disused Chatswood brick kiln dressed up as funnel-web spiders. That way they were able to experience night and day what it’s like to be an oppressed ethnic minority under the jackboot heel of Australian Fascism.
Margo would understand.
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Funny that cutting a persons’ head off, whilst mocking their religion was neither ‘shocking’,‘inhumane’ or ‘outrageous’. Yet, take a photo of a man in his reg grundies and…... Funny perspective in that part of the world.