Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi can't do a thing to protect the protesters but let the kidnapped Ali al-Midkam be released by his kidnappers and Mustafa rushing to the hospital for a bedside photo-op.
He Tweets a photo and then lies to the Iraqi people this Tweet, right here:
He claims in the Tweet that Ali was rescued by the Iraqi forces. He lies. He lies to the American people. He hasn't corrected his lie. Sura Ali (RUDAW) reported on Sunday:
Ali al-Mikdam, activist and journalist, was tortured by his kidnappers
before they released him, according to a source close to him. The source
said Mikdam was not freed by security forces, as has been reported.
Mikdam, 22, is an Iraqi activist who participated in the October 2019
protest movement and a campaign to end impunity that is planning
demonstrations inside and outside the country for July 18. He was in
Baghdad this week and went missing on Friday evening.
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Mikdam's
kidnappers let him go, leaving him close to the al-Dora highway south of
Baghdad. Mikdam made his way to the nearest security checkpoint where
they brought him to hospital.
Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi visited Mikdam on Saturday night in
hospital, checking “on the health of journalist and activist Ali
al-Mikdam in one of Baghdad’s hospitals after security forces released
him from his kidnappers,” the PM's office tweeted.
The source told Rudaw English on Sunday that “Ali was severely tortured,
he cannot walk, and security forces don’t want us to say that he was
not liberated by them."
Mustafa's a failure as a leader and he's facing re-election in October. He lies and he fails and he fails and he lies.
