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As with the English writing/Latin numerals on supposed Iranian munitions found in Iraq, the English word "police" on these uniforms does not seem to be cause for ginning up the conspiracy theory machine.
Evidently, Iranian police do use that word as a marker on their equipment, which is all but global by now.
As a brief Google search reveals:
http://www.irandefence.net/
eimag...66fqUTYT_ph.jpg
http://www.worldisround.com/arti...55/
photo96.html
Thanks Callimachus. That's exactly the kind of info I hoped someone would provide.
I know I was accussed by at least one rightwing blogger (hi, Lex) of doubting the provenance of the pics, maybe even suggesting they were fraudulent, based on this. Of course I wasn't. I'm a direct man and would have said so if I thought so. I really did simply ask for information.
Regards, C
Hi Cernig,
These photos are not new. They are about a police raid to some neighbourhoods and arresting some thugs. These thugs were the famous ones and made those areas a dangerous place. Because of these people no outsider could go there and their main job was to take money from local stores and selling drugs. Even ordinary police didn't dare aresting them.
It has nothing to do with long hairs or non-islamic apperance. That was another story and it didn't need special forces.
The dagger in the hand of the police officer is not his and he can not behead anyone! It is the one that they seized from the thugs.
The problem that arouse later was that judiciary system announced that police can not beat criminals and punush them themselves. They should have papers from a judge and can not punish those thugs without the legal procedures.
You can ask some others about it but be sure that the story is not as mentioned.
Regards,
/Amir
Amir, can you find some links to substantiate that? Because if you're right, then malkin's been conned along with the rest of us.
Regards, C
According to Ali, New York Times now says it got the story wrong.
But while it lasted, it is curious to me that so many people responded to this news item in the Malkin version and not the Ali version.
Thanks Callimachus, I'm working up a new post.
Regards, C
I thought the Iranian U.N. ambassador's remark was revealing. If you are a Latin American or someone from the Middle East, you will indeed be very puzzled at the suggestion that most Americans profess interest in spreading democracy. The pious sounding words that have come out of most of our Presidents' mouths stand in stark contrast to the observed results of much of our foreign policy.
We have established a long-standing pattern of suppressing fledgling democracies any time such might appear populist in nature, and thereby threatening to the business interests of American capitalists. We do this by giving large-scale material support to brutal dictators who inflict terror on their citizenry as necessary to maintain a state of corporate-sponsored fascism that allows Western rent-seekers to maximize the value of their holdings. There is no apparent limit to the hideousness of the atrocities we will ignore or perhaps even actively support in the pursuit of the agenda set by U.S. business interests. Ask any Nicaraguan who somehow managed to survive the Reagan years.
The ultimate irony is that, when these dictators become disobedient to us (e.g. Saddam) or outlive their usefulness to us by losing control over their populace (e.g. Suharto), we then turn to the history of crimes they have committed as justification for forceful action on our part to "establish democracy" in what remains of their countries. However, our past support, including even public proclamations lauding these people at a time when they were busy committing genocide, are expunged from the historic record. Orwell was exactly right. The "memory hole" really does exist.
The only problem is that the many people who have lost a loved one to U.S.-sponsored terrorists such as Luis Posada Carriles might not be so forgetful. And that worries me.
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