Free Ibrahim Jassam! May 27, 2009
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When considered, for any length of time, the audacity of Ibrahim Jassam’s detainment is stunning.
The man’s an Iraqi journalist, and an Iraqi court found him innocent…
…and yet an occupying force continues to hold him as a “threat to Iraq['s] security“…
…and yet, they won’t even do so much as present their “intelligence“…
…and yet, they criticise other nations for – wait for it – their “nontransparent” detainment of journalists!
There are so many rich seams of irony fissuring beneath America’s political system. Grasping them all, I’m sure, would be like being beaten to death with a solid gold copy of the Collected Dorothy Parker.
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