While all eyes were on the SONA and all ears on the Hello Garci tapes, the world became an even more terrifying place.
Just today, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said he is "very, very sorry" for the death of the 27-year-old Brazilian who was shot eight times by plainclothes police last Friday, the day after the attempted London bombings. The cops chased him down the Underground Station after "his clothing and suspicious behavior at the station" aroused suspicion.
In the U.S. the Pentagon blocked the release of 87 photographers and four videos from Abu Ghraib that were supposed to be released this weekend. Industry journal Editor & Publisher explains why:
One clue: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Congress last year, after viewing a large cache of unreleased images: "I mean, I looked at them last night, and they're hard to believe.” They show acts "that can only be described as blatantly sadistic, cruel and inhumane," he added.
In the same period, reporter Seymour Hersh, who helped uncover the scandal, said in a speech before an ACLU convention: “Some of the worse that happened that you don't know about, ok? Videos, there are women there. Some of you may have read they were passing letters, communications out to their men….The women were passing messages saying ‘Please come and kill me, because of what's happened.’
“Basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys/children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. The worst about all of them is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror it's going to come out.”
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