WHY DOES ANYONE TRUST THE U.S.?

Malcom Lagauche

...At the end of the Ba’ath rule in Iraq, General Sultan Ahmad was the country’s Minister of Defense. After April 9, 2003, he, along with many Ba’ath officials, disappeared. Then came the infamous deck of 55 playing cards on which the U.S. pictured its most-wanted Ba’ath officials. Ahmad was in the deck. Kurdish and U.S. officials knew that Ahmad was in Mosul. They wrote to him and tried to arrange his surrender. On September 19, 2003, he turned himself in. The events leading to Ahmad’s surrender are quite bizarre. General Petraeus, now famous for being the person who will determine the future of U.S. activity in Iraq, wrote to Ahmad and said: You have my word that you will be treated with the utmost dignity and respect, and that you will not be physically or mentally mistreated while under my custody. The negotiations prior to his surrender included guarantees that Ahmad would not be detained for more than a few days and he would not be charged with any crime. Petraeus’ word was just as good as Kissinger’s. Currently, Ahmad has been convicted by a bogus court of genocide during the Anfal campaign and is awaiting the hangman along with Ali al-Majid and Hussein Rashid. On September 4, 2007, an appeals court upheld the death sentences and all must hang within 30 days of the failed appeal. There is no date set, but the executions could occur at any time (...) Ahmad’s days are numbered. He trusted the U.S. general who communicated with him. This lying entity is now the person in whose hands the future of U.S. involvement in Iraq has been placed...

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