The Congressman and the Dictator’s Daughter
REP. JERRY WELLER WAS running for reelection when he announced that he was engaged to Zury Rios Sosa, an outspoken Guatemalan legislator and daughter of former dictator General Efrain Rios Montt.
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U.S. Sends Wrong Message to the World
/in International Herald Tribune/by Frank SmythBecause the United States has set a high standard for press freedom, any perceived weakening in U.S. protections provides cover for authoritarian regimes to justify crackdowns on their own press and others.
ABU GHRAIB: Within the Horror
/in Los Angeles Times/by Frank SmythThe guards took turns holding the board and ordering the man to make the animal outbursts, punishing him with another swat after each bleat. Hours later, the prisoner could no more than gasp, but the guards kept swinging.
Il ricordo di un amico perso nel terrore di Saddam
/in International Herald Tribune/by Frank SmythIl rovesciamento del regime di Saddam Hussein in Iraq ha liberato un torrente di ricordi repressi, racconti di torture, sparizioni ed esecuzioni sbrigative.
Remembering a Friend Lost to Saddam’s Terror
/in International Herald Tribune/by Frank SmythIraqi soldiers were camped around us. Their machine gunners shot into fields that the day before had been filled with hundreds of Kurds fleeing the city, mostly women either carrying or leading children.
Battle Cry of Freedom: A Review of Taking Liberties
/in The Washington Post/by Frank SmythBorn in Nazi Germany to Jewish parents, Aryeh Neier is America’s foremost rights advocate. Today, at 65, he runs the Open Society Institute funded by the philanthropist financier George Soros.
Iraq: Telling the Left from the Right
/in LAWeekly/by Frank SmythHOW MANY AMERICANS WHO OPPOSE THE LOOMING war know the left from the right when it comes to Iraq? The only two players on the field are not George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein.