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Syria-Lebanon
Beydoun says US acted with ‘tribal mentality’
2003-07-27
Former Lebanon Water and Energy Minister Mohammed Abdel-Hamid Beydoun called for the formation of an “effective” parliamentary opposition front Friday, accusing the Unites States of acting with a “tribal mentality” in Iraq. Speaking at his office in Tyre, Beydoun, who was dismissed from the Amal Movement’s politburo in March after a dispute with the group’s leader, Speaker Nabih Berri, said the “execution without trial” of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s sons, Odai and Qusai, “indicates that the Americans acted with a tribal mentality, and not in accordance with law and democracy.”
"Execution without trial" in a shootout, he means...
“The Americans have also executed Saddam’s grandson, aged 14, indicating that an individual is held responsible for his family’s actions and not just his own,” Beydoun added.
Suppose he coulda put the gun down and stopped shooting... Nah. That wouldn't have worked.
The Tyre MP then questioned the US forces’ “real aims” behind publishing photographs of those “executed” and publicizing them to the world through the media. He said that the Americans probably wanted to recall the images of death and executions that marked the darker episodes of Iraq’s history.
Yasss... We must examine the real motives! Things are not what they seem! There are obviously deep-laid plots, sinister conspiracies at work here...
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#3  Somebody from that part of the world says WE act with a tribal mentality? That's rich.
Posted by: eric   2003-7-27 2:57:00 PM  

#2  A wise person [alas not me] once said [paraphrased] "We could have avoided all this crap about the pictures by giving them to al Jazeerah first."
Posted by: John Anderson   2003-7-27 2:19:47 PM  

#1  Damned if we do, but seriousy screwed if we don't. Easy choice. Piss off little one, ye are but a gnat dreaming of being a fly, again. Small mind, small thoughts, small dreams. Think he's sucking up and posturing to get a job? Pfeh. He's much too obvious.
Posted by: PD   2003-7-27 1:36:47 PM  

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