Above The Law
November, 2009
Baghdad—Six years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, the ostensibly democratic U.S.-backed government of Iraq is enacting measures to censor books and curtail access to the Internet. The justification, as explained by Iraq deputy cultural minister Taher Naser al-Hmood, sounds familiar: "It is not easy to balance securityand democracy. It is like being a tightrope walker." Or as another official put it, "We are living in such a dangerous time that we need to control things.&...
