Another reason why the UN may not have been cheering for Allawi and his happy talk about democracy. This event was widely reported, overseas. This from the largest Sydney, Australia paper:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/16/1089694568757.html?oneclick=trueIyad Allawi, the new Prime Minister of Iraq, pulled a pistol and executed as many as six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station, just days before Washington handed control of the country to his interim government, according to two people who allege they witnessed the killings.
They say the prisoners - handcuffed and blindfolded - were lined up against a wall in a courtyard adjacent to the maximum-security cell block in which they were held at the Al-Amariyah security centre, in the city's south-western suburbs.