Salam Pax posting again

[Benbow]

With effect from 21 May, so far.

http://justzipit.blogspot.com/

This is part of what he says about the arrest today by US forces of Mohsen Abdel Hamid, leader of the Iraq Islamic Party

This really isn’t good news. And al-Sharqiya just reported from the press conference at the Islamic party headquarters where the spokesman said that the translator with the American forces arresting Hameed and his sons told Hammed that this is what happens to you when you don’t take part in the elections. Now that is a translator that needs bitch slapping. Even worse if this was something the American soldiers told him to translate.

I don’t get it. So Condi comes to Iraq preaching that Sunni parties are included in the constitution writing process and a week later they arrest the head of THE one party who might be able to see sense?

and you can see a picture here of what the American soldiers did to Hamid's front door.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050530/wl_mideast_afp/iraqpoliticssunni_050530095316

I know that Hamid has since been released, and the US military is saying that it was a mistake - mistaken intelligence (remember the killing of the head of the Italian secret police, that was attributed by the US military in Iraq to mistaken intelligence too). And here is a picture of Hamid, grey-haired - this will not go down well in a culture that reveres their elders.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050530/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_050530112249

What's happened to Hamid's sons who were also detained?

[Zhade]

1. Where the HELL has he been?

Did he have to break out of Abu Ghraib or something?

I hope he's okay.

[Garbo 2004]

2. He worked as a journalist for a while. Wrote for the Guardian as I recall.

[Zhade]

3. Yeah, but he's still in Iraq, right?

He should post an "I'm still alive" post once in a while!