(U.S. appointed) Iraqi Governor jailed for Extortion

[Neutrino]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3240947.stm

[bif]

1. Will we read about this in the U.S. papers?

Doubt it.

[UpInArms]

2. I guess when you don't know

the language, the customs, the reality of any given situation this is what happens.

The case has proved hugely embarrassing for Coalition forces, who initially ignored repeated complaints about Munim's behaviour.

He was only arrested at the end of June, after US troops hunting for three missing teenagers found them imprisoned in the mayoral offices - which lay within the walls of their own heavily-guarded HQ.

and when you find that you are holding prisoners by proxy, what does that make you?

[damnraddem]

5. Well, maybe that does help to explain politics in ...

Louisiana.

[dbt]

3. How delightfully understated:

"The sheer lack of other suitable candidates at the time, it seems, overrode possible reservations about his background."

Gotta LOVE the BBC!

:evilgrin:
dbt

[acmavm]

4. Just another Chalabi wanna-be

.

[damnraddem]

6. So there, that puts all of us in our place for criticizing Dubya, ...

claiming that the U.S. would be unable to establish civil order in Iraq. Already the U.S. has established a government in one part of Iraq that lives up to the high standards of a U.S. state: such as Louisiana. ;-)