Friday, July 15, 2005

 

Where's Their "Backing Out Of Iraq In Five Easy Steps" Dossier?

from Joe Conason, at salon.com:

On July 10, a report in the Times of London (which also broke the story of the Downing Street memo) revealed the existence of a special dossier titled "Young Muslims and Extremism" that was prepared last year for British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Compiled jointly by Britain's Home Office and Foreign Office, the dossier warned that U.S. and British foreign policy was causing severe alienation among Muslim citizens of the United Kingdom -- and referred to the Iraq war as a "recruiting sergeant" for al-Qaida.

Why, in our two supposed "democracies," do these frickin' prescient "special government dossiers" only come to the attention of the public after the fact?

posted by Michael 9:23 PM