Nepotism on trial
Iraq the Model reports that, slowly but surely, Saddam's senior aides are being brought to trial on accounts of political and ethnic murder in the South and Kurdistan during the 1980's and early 90's. Just to reinforce the fact that Saddam ran a mafia-like regime based on privilage, it is interesting to note that almost all of his senior aides are related to him in some way. Some examples of the men being interrogated currently:
Ali Hasan Al-Majeed (Chemical Ali) who confessed this time that he led operations against political targets in the south when he was in charge of the Ba'ath organizations in that region.
By the way, Ali was a sergeant before Saddam promoted him to general and appointed him minister of defense!
Watban Ibrahim Al-Hasan (Saddam's brother; a cop who became a minister of interior!)
Barazan Ibrahim Al-Hasan (Saddam's brother and chief of the Mukhabarat)
One big happy jailbird family.
posted by Remz Pokorny @ 12:16 PM
2 Comments:
At 10:08 AM,
Robert Taylor said…
Oh yeah, and of course that doesn't happen in the U.S. God forbid! Prescott Bush, George Bush Sr., George Bush Jr., Jeb Bush, George Bush III, the list goes on and on. But there's no coincidence. Come on Remz.
At 11:41 AM,
Remz Pokorny said…
I never said it doesn't happen in the US. Where did I say that?
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