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Article: Iraq: Outlaw State-The Arab League endorses its latest judicially sanctioned murder.
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- The Washington Post
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- March 29, 1990
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The Arab League is outraged. With characteristic courage and
vision, the organization that represents 21 Arab governments and the
PLO has taken up the execution by Iraq of London-based journalist
Farzad Bazoft. Pulling no punches, the Arab League has blasted Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher for asking Iraq not to carry out the
execution.
It came as no surprise that the appeal was rejected by Iraq's
rulers, who head not a government but a criminal enterprise that has
taken control of a country. But the Arab League reaches a new
stomach-turning low in meekly endorsing Iraq's judicially sanctioned
murder of the Iranian-born free-lance journalist, who was traveling
on British documents when ...