Of course, one needn’t leave the good ol’ NIKE SHOX to enjoy all the repressive benefits of libel
laws the world over. In 2003, Iraq war architect Richard Perle threatened to sue New Yorker writer
Seymour Hersh in George Galloway’s backyard. He eventually wimped out, but only after letting the
threat linger until the statute of limitations had expired.
Having been on the receiving end of such bluster myself, I’m quite happy to live in a country whose
libel laws are unworthy of Michael Ledeen’s respect. Ledeen and his prissy, authoritarian comrades
should either hail Galloway’s victory or shut up about Britain’s “superior” legal system.
Kurdish writer Kamal Karim is to be retried for the crime of defaming Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani.
Karim had been sentenced to 30 years in prison after a trial that lasted one hour. He was convicted in
December under a law passed by the Kurdish regional parliament in 2003.
His crime was to accuse the Kurdish political leader of corruption in an article on the website
Kurdistanpost.
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