Talabani medivac'd to Jordan
The other shoe is the possibility of regime change, a subject speculated about for a couple of months.
By a US air asset, observed to have walked to a car in Jordan, to Amman's King Hussein Medical City, accompanied by members of his immediate family.
In the past few days Talabani has:
- spoken out Saturday against the Friday arrest by what Juan Cole suggests was a special ops team, and was peculiar in time, subject, and place, of the son of Ammar al-Hakim, and called the arrest "indecent",
- spoken out Thursday against what has become a farce -- Sabrine al-Janabi said she was raped by three policemen last weekend, and uber-puppet Nuri al-Maliki pardoned the three officers after an investigation which lasted less than a day. Talabani called for political leaders to allow legal proceedings into the allegations of rape, and
- on the 15 of February when the "Where's Moqtada al Sadr" story broke, he spoke out to the effect that Moqtada al Sadr tended to stabilize the situation.
That's three against the Bush-Cheney Gang's puppets and their puppetry.