Neocons persecute innocents, celebrate real criminals

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

She was described as popular, friends with the PTA president's daughter, and she came in second in her Manhattan school's student body election.

However, Adama Bah, a Muslim immigrant, endured something few 16-year-olds experience.

In April, she was arrested by the FBI, which claimed she was a likely suicide bomber. No charges were filed or evidence produced, but Bah was detained in a maximum-security juvenile detention facility, where she was limited to one five-minute phone call a week from her mother and was not allowed to receive mail, including letters of support from her teachers and classmates, who swore her innocence.

more at:
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051229/OPINION/512290302/1034

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1. Ahmed Chalabi was convicted in 1979 of embezzling $230 million

Conventional wisdom says if an innocent like Bah was subjected to such treatment, someone who was obviously guilty would receive the same.

Well, apparently not.

Ahmed Chalabi was convicted in 1979 of embezzling $230 million from the bank he founded in Jordan. Facing 17 years in prison, he fled the country and eventually made his way to Washington, where he became friends with future Bush advisers Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz.

He soon found his views matched neoconservatives' on the subject of Iraq and using a front group, the Iraqi National Congress, he began lobbying for a U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Much of the so-called "faulty intelligence" on WMDs, as well of the promises of soldiers being greeted with "flowers and candy," leading up to the Iraq war has been traced back to Chalabi, who envisioned himself as the new leader of a "democratic" Iraq.

Following the war, Chalabi traveled to Iraq, where he failed to receive popular support, his predictions were proven wrong, and he fell out of U.S. favor.

From the link above.

[MasonJar]

2. Because this cabal is criminal. He fits right in. n/t

[kevinbgoode]

3. Oh yep...spreadin' freedom.....while stealing it from the citizens

at home. The neo-con ideal.