In the real Iraq, the US still calls all the shots

[the Kelly Gang]

In the real Iraq, the US still calls all the shots
September 24, 2004

Just one sentence demonstrated where the real power lies in Baghdad: not with the "sovereign" Iraqi Government, but with the American "embassy".

Iraq's Justice Minister said on Tuesday that the scientist Rihab Taha would be released from jail. The case of Huda Ammash, another scientist suspected of involvement in Saddam Hussein's biological warfare program, was under discussion, he said.

US and British officials were caught by surprise, and feared this would be seen as a concession to terrorists who had beheaded two American hostages and were threatening to murder a third, the Briton Kenneth Bigley, unless the two Iraqi women were freed.


http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/23/1095651472773.html