Apt Pupils: Assassinating the Truth About Atrocities in Iraq
To speak out for human rights in an occupied land — to investigate and publicize the systematic tortures and atrocities practiced by the client regime of the occupying power — is a dangerous, often deadly business. Harith al-Obaidi found that out in Iraq this week, when he was gunned down in a Baghdad mosque a day after he condemned the American-installed government for its flagrant abuses. The New York Times reports: The Sunni leader, Harith al-Obaidi, was leading Friday prayers at al-Shawaf mosque in the upscale neighborhood of Yarmouk, and also gave a sermon complaining about the abuses, when a