General Ahmad Zaki Abdeen, the governor of Kafr el-Sheikh who ordered the violent suppression of the Bread Intifada in Burullus, has an impressive CV, including serving as the Egyptian Military Attache in the US from 1993 to 1995.
This is exactly the caliber of people the criminals at the White House love to deal with.
From Al-Jazeera:
About 500 Australian combat troops have pulled out of southern Iraq, six months after Kevin Rudd, the Australian prime minister, came to power promising to bring the soldiers home.
A spokesman for the governor of Dhi Qar province said the troops had pulled out of the Talil base in Nasiriya on Sunday, with US forces replacing them.
But a British military spokesman in the southern city of Basra said the withdrawal was still under way.
The pullout comes as polls show that 80 per cent of Australians are against the war in Iraq.