Who’s In Charge Here?
The Associated Press is reporting the Iraqi government has arrested the individual who secretly recorded the hanging of former dictator Saddam Hussein and then released the recording.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP)—The person believed to have recorded Saddam Hussein’s raucous execution on a cell phone camera was arrested Wednesday, an adviser to Iraq’s prime minister said.
A U.S. military spokesman, meanwhile, said the United States would have handled the execution differently had it been in charge.
The adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media, did not identify the person. But he said it was “an official who supervised the execution” and who is “now under investigation.”
“In the past few hours, the government has arrested the person who made the video of Saddam’s execution,” the adviser said.
Which makes me wonder if maybe the Iraqis aren’t a lot farther along the path to a viable, self-sustaining government than those in the US media would like us to believe.
After all, by comparison, the US government has not yet arrested anyone for leaking details of the SWIFT surveillance program, or the NSA terrorist surveillance program to the NYT.
