OK, maybe there is some WoT related news after all.
The Independent reports that the US Embassy in London has had to retract remarks about extraordinary rendition to Syria made in a BBC interview by its ambassador“
”Robert Tuttle [the US Ambassador] told Radio 4's Today programme last Thursday that there was no evidence that US forces had sent suspected terrorists for questioning in Syria“
Its not the first time either.
”Mr Tuttle was involved in an earlier embarrassing denial when he insisted in a letter to The Independent that US forces did not use white phosphorous as a weapon. His remarks were quickly contradicted by US gun crews in their own internet magazine, in which they boasted of using white phosphorous in a “shake and bake” mission against insurgents in the assault on Fallujah.“
The article also notes:
”Robert 'Bob' Holmes Tuttle, Republican fundraiser and Beverley Hills car-dealer, was sworn in as Ambassador to the Court of St James on 14 July, 2005.
Tuttle's appointment came after nearly a year without a US ambassador, which sparked controversy over how seriously the US treats the position.“
No comments:
Post a Comment