Wampum

Face on a milk carton

Missing in US Custody

Andrei Sakharov's note on necessary changes to bring civilization to the Soviet Union in the era of its Central Asian War do not seem very foreign here in the United States during the era of its Central Asian War.

The abolition of the death penalty and the unconditional banning of torture and the use of psychiatry for political purposes are also necessary.

But that isn't Sakharov's face on the v-milk carton. That is the face of Professor Huda Sali Mahdi Ammash, a former Dean of Baghdad University (twice). She wrote a peer-reviewed research paper Toxic Pollution, the Gulf War, and Sanctions, that was published in Iraq Under Siege (South End Press, 2002). She's been in US custody since the 5th of May, 2003. There are no specific charges against Professor Huda Sali Mahdi Ammash.

Confined to Gorky

Let your local Patrio-Bot know how you feel about keeping the former Dean of the UofB on ice to continue proping up the bizzare fictions Baghdad Bob tried to sell to the press during the Fall of Baghdad, and which the Bush Regime is still marketing, 18 months after the sell-by date.

You can use the comments (mostly idle between Koufax periods) to put yourself on record for the prompt release of Professor Ammash. There are on-line petitions too. Alternatively, you can disclose the locations of the pre-cursor agents for the chemical weapons and the weaponized cultures for the biological weapons, and the production facilities and the delivery systems you've kept hidden, possibly under your bed. One or the other, but not both, and not neither.

Thanks to the alert reader who corrected me.

Posted by EBW at October 4, 2004 09:40 AM | TrackBack