01-08-2009, 02:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-08-2009, 02:33 PM by Jan Klimkowski.)
This feels like another layer of the onion skin being peeled back, but I doubt it's the entire story.
We have one, possibly two (if the story about the guy hiding in the toilet is correct), IT consultants being protected by four bodyguards.
Two bodyguards per teccie.
Hmmm - these IT consultants are clearly not the "turn off your caps lock" type computer technicians. They were almost certainly involved in sensitive and important work.
It's also always been obvious, on reading between the lines, that they were kidnapped by Iraqi government-backed militia.
All of this is the real reason for the British government demanding media silence from the families and for back-channel negotiations taking place involving prisoner releases.
If this is about Iraqi political corruption, then the IT technician is unlikely to be released alive.
If this is about a deeper level of corruption and collusion, involving for instance private corporations creaming off the "reconstruction" money - remember there was effectively no audit trail for the billions of dollars poured into Iraq - then again the IT technician will either be executed or sworn to silence.
It's certainly a dirty buisiness.
We have one, possibly two (if the story about the guy hiding in the toilet is correct), IT consultants being protected by four bodyguards.
Two bodyguards per teccie.
Hmmm - these IT consultants are clearly not the "turn off your caps lock" type computer technicians. They were almost certainly involved in sensitive and important work.
It's also always been obvious, on reading between the lines, that they were kidnapped by Iraqi government-backed militia.
All of this is the real reason for the British government demanding media silence from the families and for back-channel negotiations taking place involving prisoner releases.
If this is about Iraqi political corruption, then the IT technician is unlikely to be released alive.
If this is about a deeper level of corruption and collusion, involving for instance private corporations creaming off the "reconstruction" money - remember there was effectively no audit trail for the billions of dollars poured into Iraq - then again the IT technician will either be executed or sworn to silence.
It's certainly a dirty buisiness.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war