28 Jun 2004 Some People Don’t Trust This Story
Posted at 01:26h
in Blog
In the Reuters article today by Tom Perry entitled Governing Body, U.S. Pick CIA Link Allawi as Iraqi PM, the following paragraph appears:
“It was unclear how far U.S. officials or Brahimi influenced the choice of a long-time exile known to few Iraqis and whom people in Baghdad said was an outsider they could not trust.”
Translation: I know very little about why the Governing Council picked Allawi, despite the fact that as a journalist that’s exactly the sort of information I should have, but my inadequacy as a reporter is not going to stop me from inserting an editorial statement that undermines Iraq’s transition to democracy.