Iraq’s Eclipsed Red Star?
How many anti-war activists like Sean Penn know their left from their right in Iraq? Or that the Iraqi Communist Party produces more detailed reports on torture under Saddam than any Western human rights group?
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Pentagon’s Latest Friend is Africa’s Newest Tyrant
/in St. Louis Post-Dispatch/by Frank SmythSecretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld last week became the highest ranking American official to ever visit Africa’s newest nation, the small state of Eritrea on the Red Sea across from Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
Hussein Opens His Prison Doors to Trouble
/in Newsday/by Frank SmythIraqi President Saddam Hussein released thousands of political and other prisoners from jails across his country, including from the notorious Abu Ghraib prison. The broad amnesty was no doubt welcomed by many Iraqis.
Iraq’s Forgotten Majority
/in The New York Times/by Frank SmythOn the eve of the invasion, few U.S. experts seem to know that nearly two-thirds of Iraqis are Shi’ite Muslims, who populate the slums of Baghdad as well as the south of Iraq.
The Chance to Cry
/in United Nations/by Frank SmythI never heard an outburst like the one a young Iraq Shia boy made as I helplessly watched from my own prison cell as he was tortured by Saddam’s guards, until my golden retriever cried out one day after she was bitten by a Rottweiler.
Infallible Nation?
/in Asmarino.com/by Frank SmythWhy would Eritrea keep secret something that seemed to be in their national interest to publicize? One reason is that their leaders were too proud to admit that some of their own men including officers had been killed.
Colombia Briefing: Bad Press
/in The Comittee to Protect Journalists/by Frank SmythThis story became of the evidence that led the State Department to designate Carlos Castano and his paramilitary group known by its acronym in Spanish as the AUC, as a terrorist organization over a year later, in 2002.