Thursday, May 13, 2004

Just how much worse could it be?

[Dan] Rather also questioned if, in the Muslim world, being photographed and being seen in compromising, sexual positions was subject to blackmail.

“It’s not just subject to blackmail,” Baer said. “It’s subject to you being killed within the tribe.”
  CBS News article

This is also one of the double-jeopardy issues facing the Iraqi women in the prison. Any "shame" they incur is apt to get them killed when they get out for shaming their family.

Baer is Bob Baer, the ex-CIA operative who was stationed for a number of years in the Middle East - and specifically when the U.S. backed out of an arrangement to be the back-up for an attempted coup on Saddam.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.