I'm making an exception to my usual rule of ignoring Proyect, but this really pisses me off. Christian has spent a total of nearly three months in Iraq. He's been in the middle of firefights and met with insurgents who threatened to kill him.
You mean this sort of James Bond thing?
>>For the next meeting, I am given simple instructions: Go to a certain street corner and wait. Someone in a car will pick me up. When the car arrives it is Abu Hassan. He's tense and again warns of the dangers. "If anything goes wrong they will find your hotel and kill you."<<
Frankly, I find just about everything that Parenti writes to lack credulity, including that. If you want another version of life in Fajulla, I recommend the long article that appeared in last month's Harpers. Unfortunately, it is not online. Let's put it this way. The author, who spent a *year* in Falluja could not come up with a single instance of somebody's back being carved into a checkerboard. Furthermore, he was treated with great respect and kindness.
It's quite possible he was nearly kidnapped a week or two ago in Sadr City.
Why, I myself am the target of a dark conspiracy involving hired assassins of the Open Society Institute and the Demogreens. I have instructed my wife to contact Cuban security if I am not heard from in more than a 24 hour period.
Christian's a good friend of mine, and I'm very fond of him. I really wish he wouldn't go into war zones; I'd much rather have him alive. But how dare a toxic nut sitting in Manhattan can question his motives, veracity, or nerve? Fuck you, you little creep.
Why not. Just make sure to wear a condom.
Michael, I can't believe you indulge this slandering little shit over & over. Most of the time I ignore it, but this really makes my blood boil.
I assume that you will keep lobbying to have him me expelled from pen-l, Mr. postmodernist free speech.
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