Who would you rather have in your corner: the new Iraq government or the New York Times?
The government is using the jihadis kidnapping infomercials against them, but a certain newspaper is troubled:
The broadcast of such videos raises questions about whether they violate legal or treaty obligations about the way opposing fighters are interrogated and how their confessions are made public.
The Iraqi government, however, seems to understand that there’s a war on:
“Because of their confessions and the disgusting things they did, we have reached our limit,” said the Mosul police chief, Ahmed al-Jaburi. “There is no more patience.” If nothing more, the confessions, as they are called in the videos, offer a rare glimpse into how the gangs operate and plot their killings. The videos also try to divest the terrorists and criminals of their religious platform by challenging them with questions about Islam. “These are men who do not fear God,” an Interior Ministry official said at the beginning of one of the segments this week. He described the men as Iraqi and other Arab terrorists. “Our special forces will crush their filthy heads!”
Crush away!