corrente

A compendium from Buzzflash.

Plenty of them. Why the Gitmo-style orange jumpsuits in the video, for example? Are they that common in Iraq?

And if we combine what we read today about Abu Ghraib below—that it was a nexus of CIA, military intelligence, and a highly secret Pentatgon Special Access Program, code named "Copper Green," that was directing a program of torture—with what we know, that Nick Berg was climbing an nearby antenna (back) ....

Well, it gets weird, doesn't it? And then there's the timing of it all, as well as the obvious use the administration's Department of Changing the Subject makes of the story.

Certainly Abu Ghraib was a very wrong place. Could Berg have been there at a very wrong time? Unanswered questions....

UPDATE Alert reader scaramouche points us to this excellent post by soj at Kos. Among other incongruities, he points out that although the story broke simultaneously in many media outlets, they all refer to an Islamic website—which cannot be found. There's also the odd fact that Nick Berg's father appears on an Enemies List posted by freepers. Weirdness piled on wierdness.

UPDATE Alert reader Grrrpy points to this RNC/CPA transcript on the orange jumpsuit:

Q Bill Glauber with the Chicago Tribune. It appeared in the video that Mr. Berg was wearing an orange prison jumpsuit. Are such orange prison jumpsuits used in any detention facilities in Iraq that you know of? And also, he was, I believe, released a day after a court case in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Can you explain why that was?

MR. SENOR: He was released by the Iraqi police service?

Q Yeah.

MR. SENOR: I would refer you to the Iraqi police service on the exact day -- or the reason behind the exact day he was released. I am aware of the court case that was filed. It is public knowledge. But all I know about it is that it was filed. As for the exact moment or day, time that he was released, that's something for the Iraqi police to address.

What was your -- ?

Q He was pictured in an orange -- what appeared to be an orange prison jumpsuit.

MR. SENOR: Oh, the orange -- yeah. You know --

Q Are any such jumpsuits used in Iraq in any detention facilities, coalition and/or Iraqi?

MR. SENOR: I'll let General Kimmitt speak to security detainees. As far as criminal detainees that are under the jurisdiction of the Iraqi police service or the Iraqi Ministry of Interior or the Iraqi Ministry of Justice, I don't know of any policy that they have. I would -- you should ask them, you should contact them about uniforms that they require inmates to make. To my knowledge, there's no such case in which that is done. But I will check on that and check with the various ministries.

I don't see an answer to the question, here.