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AL-ABC'S INTIMACY ISSUES
Lead story on ABC radio news: Saddam Hussein has been photographed in his underpants!
Lawyers representing Saddam Hussein plan to sue the British tabloid that published intimate photos of the deposed Iraqi dictator, Al-Jazeera television reported, quoting the head of the defence team.
The photos in the The Sun, one of which shows Saddam wearing only his underpants, are a “violation of human rights and in contravention of the Geneva Convention” on treatment of prisoners, Ziad Khassawneh was quoted as saying.
Mr Khassawneh said his team would “pursue all the necessary legal steps to see to it that those who commit such base acts against any prisoner, and especially against president Saddam, are punished”.
Saddam hasn’t suffered this grievously since vicious Americans looked at his teeth. Like the ABC, Al-Jazeera is also upset over Saddam’s saucy photoshoot:
Al-Jazeera itself said that it had chosen not to publish the photos for “professional and moral reasons”.
Maybe they were offended by the shabby state of Saddam’s not-so-tighty-whities. Let’s send him some Mark Latham boxer shorts.
UPDATE. Arthur Chrenkoff: “I’m happy that after years of broadcasting violence and mayhem directed against the infidels, Al Jazeera is finally concerned about hurting people’s feelings.”
Is this headline deliberately gross? Bush probes Saddam’s pants.
(I’ve stuffed up once with something similar)
BTW, have you read about Ramsey’s claim of a “Guantanamo Bay” baseball cap in today’s column?
ABC Asia Pacific were predictably all over this story like a $2 whore. They also made mention twice, in the same bulletin, the allegations about US ‘brutality’ in Afghanistan. In fact, when commenting about Saddam, they also threw in Abu Ghhraib, flushing the Koran and Afghanistan. I was waiting to see the US blamed for Collingwood’s win (gnashing of teeth).
Al-Jazeera itself said that it had chosen not to publish the photos for “professional and moral reasons”.
Oh, but they will show film footage of Westerners being beheaded. Morally bankrupt. They have only themselves to blame for being ignored as hopelessly biased and unprofessional.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 05 21 at 11:30 AM • permalinkTalking of intimacy issues, did you see Blair(British Prime Minister Tony, not Tim) boasting in the “Sun” that he can have sex at least five times a night. I found it unbelieveable a Prime Minister would say this. It’s on google.
Posted by Susan Norton on 2005 05 21 at 11:43 AM • permalinkTalking of intimacy issues, did you see Blair(British Prime Minister Tony, not Tim) boasting in the “Sun” that he can have sex at least five times a night. I found it unbelieveable a Prime Minister would say this. It’s on google.
If the PM does it, it’s not illegal. He could have a late-term abortion for all I know.
Oh wait - you mean physically able.
Underscore — I believe the punchline to that joke is, “...and boy, are my arms tired...”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 22 at 12:44 AM • permalinkOther SO CALLED story on ABC news- the play “The Brothers” about Peter and Tim Costello.Silly female director?/writer? is choking on outrage that patrons booing herself and the actors -try to conjure up Gary McDonald with hair- are playing the man.!!
Never mind the fact that she and her aunty are indulging in extreme character assassination of a political nature-yet again.So the ABC was silent on atrocities perpetrated by Saddam’s henchmen in Iraq because they just killed and tortured people instead of humiliating them? Good to know.
Btw, anyone see the Labor Attack Womble refer to “Michelle Corby” on Ten’s ‘Meet the Press’ this morning?
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2005 05 22 at 04:31 AM • permalinkNo, but I can imagine that he said it’s all the fault of the government.
Michelle, ma belle,
Sont les mots qui vont tres belle ensemble,
Tres belle ensemble.
Oh for the days when la belle francais was the lingua franca of diplomacy!
The ex DFAT Phascogale is almost as unconvincing as Alexander Bunyip in the tough guy role.
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Probably done with a cell-phone camera!
In the West, the wonder of a cell phone in some sense is the ultimate expression of a long struggle for the primacy of scientific reason, tolerance, critical consciousness, and free expression. That intellectual journey goes back to Galileo, Newton, and Socrates.
Everything from CDs to Starbucks that we take for granted is a representation of millions of past Western lives. These forgotten scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs, along with other reformers in politics, journalism, economics, and religion, created our present liberal environment. Only its institutions led to our prosperous modernity.
Without them, thinkers cannot discuss ideas freely. They will not find legal protection for their accomplishments, status for their contributions, and profit for their benefactions — and thus would end up hopeless and adrift in a society such as present-day Syria, Iran, or Egypt.
That long odyssey is not so in the world of bin Laden or an Iranian theocrat — or the ignorant who stream out of the madrassas and Friday fundamentalist harangues along the Afghan-Pakistani border. These fist-shaking, flag-burning Islamic fascists all came late to the Western tradition and now cherry-pick its technology. As classic parasites, a Zawahiri or al-Zarqawi wants Western sophisticated weapons and playthings — without the bothersome foundations that made them all possible.
An Afghan who riots because he learns of a rumor in a Western magazine, and those like him who explode and behead in Iraq, are emblematic of this hypocrisy. Nothing they have accomplished in their lives, either materially or philosophically, would result in a free opinion magazine, much less the technology to send out the story instantaneously — or, in the case of al-Zarqawi, to have his murdering transmitted globally on the Internet.
Instead, our Afghan rioters, and the Islamist organizations that have endorsed them, live in the eighth century of rumor, sexual and religious intolerance, tribal chauvinism, and gratuitous violence — but now electrified by the veneer of the 21st-century civilization that is not their own, but sometimes fools the naïve who it is.
Yet all the illumination in the modern world — neon, fluorescent, or incandescent — cannot light up the illiberal Dark Age mind if it is not willing (or forced) to begin the long ordeal of democracy, tolerance, legality, and individual rights.
http://victorhanson.com/articles/hanson052005.html