Iraqi press calls for justice | BBC News UK edition

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Last Updated: Saturday, 8 May, 2004, 16:19 GMT 17:19 UK

The mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners has prompted an angry response in this week's Iraqi press.

One paper wonders what Washington's response would have been if the prisoners had been American while another calls for harsh punishment for the perpetrators of the abuses.

Other commentators look at the reinstatement of former Baath party officials, the ongoing conflict with radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr and the transfer of power to the Iraqi Governing Council.

(what follows are excerpts from 7 Iraqi newspapers--example):

We want to see, soon, how the United States will punish those who tortured the Iraqi prisoners and took photographs of their pain and suffering. We want to see Tony Blair, who speaks of human rights with tearful eyes like a crocodile chewing its prey. We want see, hear and feel the punishment of those who committed these abuses. Their punishment should be exemplary, first to atone for the injustice done to the prisoners, and second to clear the reputation of the two superpowers that have long claimed to be staunch advocates of human rights.

Al-Manarah - from commentary by Khalaf al-Munshidi

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3696351.stm

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1. It's good to see them speaking out....

...like a free press should.

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2. It will probably

prompt a visit from Bremer's enforcers to close the places down or threaten to if they don't get with the
program: we're there promoting freedom dammit! That's the message we want the "free" press to promote - not some overblown story about a "few bad apples."

As Scotty McClellan so piously told the WH press corps - every society yearns to live in freedom. By locking up all those terr'ists and evil doers (what's a little nakedness - this is war!!!), we're actually helping the people of Iraq be free from the those who hate freedom. Those naysayers should stop undermining the Coalition and print stories about all the schools opening!

(Christ, I'm dizzy from trying to immitate the WH spinning...)

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